While livestreaming meetings has become the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials need to do a better job of making sure no one — and no meeting — slips through the technological cracks.
In the most recent installment of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council’s Your Right to Know column, La Crosse Tribune reporter Olivia Herken offers local lawmakers some suggestions.
The Chicago-based O’Rourke Media Group has purchased RiverTown Multimedia from Forum Communications.
RiverTown publishes two newspapers, the Republican Eagle in Red Wing, Minn., and the (Hudson) Star-Observer. RiverTown previously published eight newspapers — four in Minnesota and four in Wisconsin — before merging several publications in 2019 and closing two newspapers this year in part due to the pandemic. The sale was effective Jan. 1.
News Media Alliance is accepting nominations for the 2020 John P. Murray Award for Excellence in Audience Development.
Nominations are due by Friday, Jan. 29. Established in 2019, the award recognizes three NMA member organizations “that have demonstrated exceptional innovation and sophistication in understanding content strategy as part of audience development.”
Editor & Publisher is accepting nominations for its 10 News Publishers That Do It Right Challenge.
Nominations are open through midnight EST, Thursday, Jan. 11. All news publishers, including print, digital, television and radio, are eligible to be recognized among the “10 That Do It Right.”
The WNA is joining with the Iowa and Minnesota newspaper associations to hold a virtual Tri-State Convention on Feb. 4-5, 2021.
Be sure to check out new, exciting changes to the program line-up, information about speakers and innovative networking opportunities this year! Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to expand your skills and meet other newspaper industry leaders.
Lon Haenel shares tips on growing your newspaper’s email list so you can better knock on the virtual doors of potential subscribers.
A new poll question about readers’ willingness to take a COVID-19 vaccine is available to be used by WNA members.
WNA members who have signed up for an account with Polco can access their local version of the new question, as well as local poll results, on their dashboards. Poll questions are available through a WNA partnership with Polco aimed at helping newspapers better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights.
The Wisconsin Relevance Project is part of a wider effort by Newspaper Association Managers aimed at uniting state and provincial press associations to speed the resurgence of community newspapers in North America.
Among the project’s benefits, it provides insights, advice, best practices, trends and other items of vital interest to community newspapers.
Journalists and members of the public face a new open meetings hurdle this year as some local government bodies decline to follow the statewide mask mandate during their meetings, the Wisconsin State Journal reported this week. Residents are risking their health just to see what their government officials are up to — a burden one expert said likely violates the state’s open meetings law.
Report for America has announced that seven Wisconsin newsrooms have been selected as host newsrooms for the national service program.
The initiative of The GroundTruth Project is a two-year program that delivers a wide-range of benefits to its corps members. Beyond paying up to half of the journalists’ salaries, it provides ongoing training and mentorship by leading journalists, peer networking, and memberships to select professional organizations.
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