Papers to Pay PR Man $700,000
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MINNEAPOLIS — A jury decided today that two Twin Cities newspapers broke oral agreements with a public relations man by identifying him as the source of a story after promising him confidentiality, and it awarded him $700,000.
In a 5-1 verdict, the Hennepin County jury awarded Dan Cohen $200,000 in actual damages and $250,000 each from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press & Dispatch in punitive damages.
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