Michael Maidenberg
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Mike Maidenberg retired from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as vice president/Communities Program in 2007. For 21 years, he was publisher of the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald.
A career newsman, Maidenberg worked at the Detroit Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and at Knight Ridder’s corporate headquarters in Miami. He became publisher in Grand Forks in 1982.
The Grand Forks Herald won the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for its coverage of the 1997 Red River floods and fires that destroyed much of downtown Grand Forks, including the Herald’s buildings.
He graduated from the University of Michigan and spent two years in the Peace Corps in India. He received a master’s from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, which named him its Distinguished Alumni in 1998.
