The Twin Cities Daily Planet is an independent website specializing in news events in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul metropolitan area. It is a non-automated news aggregator, which edits and reprints news items submitted to it by online stringers or published by affiliated local and neighborhood blogs.[1] The Daily Planet describes itself as a purveyor of "hyperlocal journalism."[2]
In 2009, the Daily Planet won overall Minnesota honors as the "best independent online news website" in the annual list of Page One honors bestowed by the Minnesota chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.[3]