For more than a year, I’ve been talking with Steve Grove about the future of news, the Minesota Star Tribune, and what it means to lead a civic institution in 2025. In this conversation, I finally got to ask him the questions on the record: the role of billionaire owners in journalism, whether local news can survive the digital age, what really happened inside DEED during Covid, and why he chose to write a memoir that reads suspiciously like a political launch.Steve is the CEO and publisher of the Star Tribune and former head of DEED, and he spent years at YouTube shaping the early creator era. This isn’t a surface-level media interview. It’s a deeper look at how journalism actually works, how power moves behind the scenes, and what’s at stake for Minnesota.If you want more conversations like this, subscribe to One Hour Detours. And if you want more of my regular Minnesota stories, you can always find them on One Minute Tours.You can purchase Steve's book, "How I Found Myself in the Midwest" here: https://amzn.to/49efESL (affiliate link).⸻Chapters00:00 Who Steve Grove is and how long we’ve been talking01:03 Writing a book while running the Star Tribune04:20 The accidental political energy of his memoir07:53 What government service really looks like from the inside10:14 Why bureaucracy frustrates people but still matters12:19 How polarization affects Minnesota differently17:15 Has our culture actually recovered from Covid20:10 The Minnesota paradox and the gaps we don’t talk about23:23 Steve’s move from government to running the Star Tribune24:31 Closing the printing plant and what that means27:01 How digital subscriptions changed the business29:00 The value of print, serendipity, and the E-edition33:48 How the Star Tribune sets the agenda36:03 The Pete Hegseth text messages story39:47 What a publisher actually does inside an investigative scoop41:14 The editorial independence question41:35 Is it good for America to have media owned by billionaires43:33 Conflicts of interest and whether they matter44:31 Who should own the news in the future46:09 How creators changed the landscape47:20 Should creators be doing the job journalism used to do49:04 What Steve learned from the early YouTube era

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