North Dakota News Cooperative launches

Readers of The Bismarck Tribune and different North Dakota newspapers will start seeing in-depth journalism produced by a brand new nonprofit, the North Dakota Information Cooperative.

Bismarck-based journalist Michael Standaert, who started working for the nonprofit final month, goals to publish weekly enterprise tales about points affecting the state.

Standaert, a local of northwest Illinois, has labored as a journalist and author for twenty-four years, first from the Midwest, and later from California, Europe and Asia. Most just lately he was primarily based in China, the place he served as a correspondent accredited with Bloomberg Business Group. He has freelanced for The Washington Publish, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, MIT Know-how Evaluation, YaleEnvironment360 and different publications. Standaert has a grasp’s diploma in journalism from Cardiff College in the UK. He has printed one e book of nonfiction and a novel.

Standaert and his spouse, Jing, and their two kids dwell in Bismarck.

Former Financial institution of North Dakota President Eric Hardmeyer, who serves on the North Dakota Information Cooperative’s board of administrators, stated Standaert brings an intensive journalism background with world expertise.

“He’ll carry a contemporary perspective to points crucial to North Dakotans,” Hardmeyer stated in a press release.