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Article: Minnesota Women's Press overcomes the odds; The newspaper that wasn't expected to succeed is now celebrating its 15th anniversary.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2000
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Mollie Hoben and Glenda Martin admit they were warned.
Local editors predicted that any newspaper dedicated to women - especially one with a feminist agenda and no stories on fashion, makeup or getting a man - was doomed to fail. More important, advertisers - the lifeblood of any publication - questioned why anyone in the 1980s would back such a passe venture.
Hoben and Martin listened and then, with classic feminist defiance, started their newspaper. Today, the Minnesota Women's Press celebrates its 15th anniversary.
It took 11 rocky years for the biweekly to turn a profit. Now, they say it has an unpaid circulation of 40,000 statewide and it ...