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Utterby

Long, careful writing about how we talk to each other.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Margaret Halvorsen

Minneapolis, MN · Covers Editing, apology, and the ethics of conversation

Margaret Halvorsen spent twenty-two years at regional newspapers, the last nine as managing editor of a daily in St. Paul, before founding Utterby in 2019. She edits every long feature and writes the Sunday editor's note. She grew up in Duluth in a house where the rule was that no one could leave the table until the argument had been finished politely.

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