Contact Cursor, Inc.
media@cursor.org
3844 Pleasant Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55409
Rob Levine
(612) 332-8414
rlevine@cursor.org
Mike Tronnes
(612) 822-8889
mtronnes@cursor.org
Board of Directors
Rob Levine
President and co-founder of Cursor, Inc., and editor of MediaTransparency.org. Bio
Mike
Tronnes
Vice president and co-founder of Cursor, Inc., and editor of
Cursor.org. Bio
Steve Paprocki
Philanthropy adviser and fundraiser for nonprofits. Bio
Dave Johnson
Commonweal Institute fellow and writes about conservative philanthropy.
Bio
Michael Griffin
Media studies instructor at Macalester College, St. Paul. Bio
Patrick O'Leary
Multimedia producer and media consultant. Bio
Full-Time Staff
Rob Levine, a native of Duluth, Minnesota, graduated with a BA from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in Journalism in 1980. He attended graduate school in Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from 1980-1983. He worked as a staff photographer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune from 1983-1987, and has worked as a freelance photographer and computer consultant in Minneapolis since that time.
In 1998 Levine, Mike Tronnes, and others founded Cursor, Inc., a Minnesota non-profit corporation dedicated to media education and criticism, and began publishing www.Cursor.org. Later, in 1999, Levine created the website www.MediaTransparency.org, itself an outgrowth of a project begun by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) that analyzed the grant making of a dozen conservative philanthropies.
In 2000 Cursor
became a 501(c)(3), a status which was granted by the IRS in July
of 2000.
Levine works in a studio in the warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis,
and lives in Minneapolis with his wife.
Mike Tronnes was born, raised and educated in Minnesota, attending the University of Minnesota, Duluth, where he minored in communications, and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he received a B.A. in journalism and history in 1977. He also completed the Stanford Professional Publishing Course in 1994.
Before editing Cursor, Tronnes was a publishing consultant, specializing in advertising sales and marketing for independent publications, including Sierra, DoubleTake, Mother Jones and Utne Reader, where he worked for nine years as the advertising director, growing annual revenue from $50,000 to $2.5 million by successfully positioning the independent title to attract a combination of mainstream and alternative advertisers.
Tronnes has also edited two critically acclaimed literary anthologies, "Closers: Great American Writers on the Art of Selling" and "Literary Las Vegas. " He lives and works in Minneapolis.