Emilie Heidemann, community and business editor for Wisconsin Media Group’s suburban Madison publications, is leaving to join the Wisconsin State Journal newsroom, she announced Tuesday in a column.
Heidemann will start Aug. 30 as a business reporter for the State Journal. She will fill the void left by former business and technology reporter Shelley Mesch, who left in May to join The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Hired in November 2018, Heidemann has spent nearly three years with the former Unified Newspaper Group. She has served as a reporter, photographer, page designer and editor for the four weekly publications.
Prior to her time with Wisconsin Media Group, Heidemann worked as a reporter and assistant editor for the Lodi Enterprise and Poynette Press from July 2017 to April 2018. While earning her journalism degree from UW-Oshkosh, she also served as news editor of The Advance-Titan student newspaper and was awarded WNA Foundation internships with the Waushara Argus in Wautoma and The Brillion News.
