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Twin Cities media cover retirement of news anchor Diana Pierce ’16 MAL

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Augsburg College History Professor Phil Adamo appears on set with Diana Pierce at KARE 11.

Longtime KARE 11 news anchor Diana Pierce ’16 MAL recently announced her retirement from聽broadcasting in the聽Twin Cities market after more than 30 years on air. In a story on the KARE 11 website, Pierce said, “The timing is excellent,” for the change because she will graduate from Augsburg College’s聽Master of Arts in Leadership program this spring and will pursue new opportunities with her master’s degree. To learn more about Pierce’s award-winning journalism career, read the following stories:

  • KARE 11:聽
  • Bring Me The News: Newscaster Diana Pierce retiring after 32 years at KARE
  • Minnesota Public Radio:聽KARE 11 anchor Diana Pierce retires
  • Star Tribune:聽KARE 11’s Diana Pierce calls it a career after 32 years
  • Pioneer Press:聽

Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly, and Minnesota leaders announce 鈥淢innesota Coalition for Common Sense鈥� at Augsburg-hosted press conference

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On February 25, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and retired astronaut Captain Mark Kelly, co-founders of聽Americans for Responsible Solutions, joined Minnesota leaders at Augsburg College to announce a new bipartisan organization, the 鈥淢innesota Coalition for Common Sense.鈥� The coalition鈥檚 members 鈥� which include leaders from across sectors and parties 鈥� will urge their elected officials to advance policies that help keep guns out of the wrong hands.

Giffords was wounded severely聽during a 2011 shooting that resulted in six deaths. She and husband, Kelly, have announced similar coalitions in New Hampshire聽and Oregon during the past several聽months.

Augsburg College President Paul Pribbenow聽welcomed the event’s guests to campus and offered opening remarks at the press conference.

Media coverage of the event聽includes:

  • Star Tribune –
  • WCCO television –
  • Minnesota Public Radio –
  • Bring Me The News – Giffords visits Minnesota to launch coalition to help prevent gun violence
  • KARE 11 television –
  • KSTP television – Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Twin Cities Discussing Gun Control
  • Christian Science Monitor –

Media reacts to “Un-Minnesotan” newspaper ad

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Augsburg College President Paul Pribbenow was one of the聽high-profile Minnesotans recently included on a full-page ad in the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper that denounced anti-Muslim bigotry as “un-Minnesotan.”

Others who added their support to the campaign聽include Gov. Mark Dayton, U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, and the CEOs of prominent Minnesota businesses such as Best Buy, General Mills, and Cargill.

The ad was a joint effort between Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison and John Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management. It states that although Minnesotans, “may be a soft-spoken bunch, we know better than to be silent or still in the face of bigotry shown to Muslims. Our fellow Minnesotans.”

Several media outlets have reported on the ad, including:

  • Bring Me the News,
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  • the , which also published an .

Bring Me The News shares roundup of River Semester info

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bringmeThe online media聽resource Bring Me The News shared a compilation of information about the Augsburg College River Semester, a three-and-a-half month program in which students and faculty members will traverse the Mississippi River from St. Paul to New Orleans while studying topics in the arts, humanities, and sciences. As the story noted, “Students will sleep in campsites instead of dorm rooms and will paddle rather than walk聽to their classes this fall.”

Kuoth Wiel ’13 gains wealth of media coverage

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Augsburg College alumna Kuoth Wiel ’13, a star in the feature film 鈥淭he Good Lie,鈥� has garnered聽a plethora of media coverage. The film, which was released聽in Minnesota Oct. 17,聽has been well received and is generating聽Oscar buzz.聽 Augsburg has received several media mentions thanks to Wiel since she was a student at the College聽when she auditioned聽for the role.

The film brings to life a fictional yet strikingly accurate story of the ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan. Born in a refugee camp in Ethiopia to Sudanese parents herself, it’s no surprise Wiel found it important to help tell this story. Being a part of the film聽“…validated all the struggles we had went through,” Wiel said in an MPR news interview.

Wiel has been traveling around the U.S. promoting the film since its September debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The film, along with Wiel聽and her cast mates, have聽been featured and covered by media outlets ranging聽from Minneapolis’ Star Tribune to Rolling Stone magazine.

Below is a list of聽some of the聽local and national media coverage on Wiel:

  • Bring Me the News聽–聽“Augsburg grad’s tragic past informs role in Hollywood movie”
  • Entertainment Weekly聽鈥撀�“Behind聽the Scenes with the Sudanese stars of ‘The Good Lie'”
  • Huffington Post聽鈥撀�“It’s been a long road to the big screen for the Sudanese stars of “‘The Good Lie'”
  • Kare 11聽鈥撀犫�淎ugsburg grad lands role with Reese Witherspoon鈥�
  • MPR聽鈥撀�“‘The Good Lie鈥� treads close to Sudanese refugee life, Minnesota actress says鈥�
  • People聽鈥撀�“Meet the real-life ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan in ‘The Good Lie'”
  • Pioneer Press聽鈥撀犫��’The Good Lie鈥� wisely leaves story to the refugees鈥�
  • Rolling Stone聽鈥撀�“This Reese Witherspoon drama about the lost boys (and girls) of Sudan is earnest to a fault, but you won’t leave unmoved”
  • Star Tribune聽–聽“Sudanese refugees weather culture shock in ‘Good Lie'”
  • Variety聽–聽“Toronto film review: ‘The Good Lie'”