Sarah Kieffer excels in the digital-to-print culinary landscape, transforming her popular Vanilla Bean Baking blog into a national brand. She is the best-selling author of multiple cookbooks, including 100 Cookies,

Phil Morris arrived on these shores two summers ago, having spent his career in Ohio, mostly Cleveland, as a newspaper editorial and metro columnist. Star Tribune publisher Steve Grove selected

Kathleen Hennessey’s LinkedIn reads like a bucket list for aspiring journalists: J-school at Cal Berkeley, AP Washington Bureau, The New York Times politics desk, and now one of the most

Twin Cities-based Jonathan Maze has become a national voice on the restaurant industry from his perch atop one of the country’s leading trade publications and his adept use of social

In 2023, just before Spotify declined to renew the critically acclaimed podcast Heavyweight, Jonathan Goldstein thought he was in a good place. “I realized I’m finally doing what I’m best

If you’re neither a Lynx diehard nor active on the streaming site Twitch, you probably don’t realize how thoroughly summer ’25 was owned by Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman, the

Abby Jimenez might be the ultimate Renaissance woman, excelling both as a culinary entrepreneur and an international literary sensation. She founded Nadia Cakes, an award-winning cupcake shop with multiple locations

Lemonada Media is a Minneapolis-based podcast network with a roster of 60-plus shows ranging from deeply reported series like Blind Plea to smart, chatty celeb-hosted pods like Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Wiser

A year ago, Twin Cities native Aron Pilhofer came home after 30-plus years at news venues including the Guardian and New York Times. With the Star Tribune rebranded as a

After graduating from Liberty University, point guard Justin Holland was back in College Park, Georgia, working as a recreation coordinator when he met 14-year-old football player Anthony Edwards. Young Ant

Launched five years ago, nonprofit media outlet Sahan Journal is a relatively good news story amid a bleak period for media at large. The digital publication, which caters to immigrants

Marielle Mohs grew up in the Twin Cities, was a high school athlete at Benilde-St. Margaret's, and then went into TV news, anchoring and reporting in Little Rock and St.