Through a partnership of library and newspaper groups, all past issues of the Daily Jefferson County Union are now available online, the Fort Atkinson newspaper announced last week.
With the completion of the project, readers can now access issues dating from 1870 to 90 days ago through the WNA’s Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers, which is hosted by Badgerlink.
Racine County Eye, an online news organization, is among 10 recipients of investigative reporting grants from the Fund for Local Journalism, the Local Media Foundation announced Wednesday.
Racine County Eye will receive a $5,000 stipend toward its “No Voice” project, which aims to educate the public about the social injustices faced by felons. The project intends to give convicted felons a voice as it defines the problem and compares and contrasts solutions from other states and how they may work in Wisconsin.
WNA executive director Beth Bennett has been elected to the National Newspaper Association Board of Directors.
Bennett will serve as one of five directors on the NNA board. Her term runs through October 2022.
In the interest of public health and the safety of our students and communities, the WNA Foundation has decided not to hold Wisconsin Civics Games competitions in 2021.
As a follow up to last year’s Homelessness in Wisconsin project, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association last week partnered with several member newspapers to recognize World Homeless Day on Saturday, Oct. 10.
The effort shined a light on homelessness in the state as the pandemic continues to exacerbate an already troubling issue.
The state Department of Health Services has said it finds “no public health value in releasing the names of the school districts with active cases of COVID-19.” Meanwhile, other states across the country are releasing this exact same data in the interest of public health.
In a recent column for the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Coalition, journalist and council member Jonathan Anderson urges state health officials to make the names of all schools with COVID-19 cases public. The column is available for publication by WNA members.
A new poll question about whether readers support Gov. Tony Evers’ recent actions to increase COVID-19 restrictions is now available to be used by WNA members.
Results from our previous poll question about whether readers will continue to watch the presidential debates are also available. The data is made possible through a partnership with Polco that aims to help members better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights.
As it begins to move into new downtown offices, the Beloit Daily News has donated materials from its archives to the Beloit Historical Society.
“As one of the oldest businesses in the region, tracing our roots to 1848, the newspaper had a treasure trove of historical materials,” Editor Bill Barth said in the Daily News story about the donations. “Preserving that past for scholarship and community use has been one of our prime motivators in planning for the move to new office space.”
A new poll question about whether readers will continue watching the presidential debates is now available to be used by WNA members. Results from our previous poll question about how readers plan to vote are now available.
The polling platform has been made available to WNA members through a partnership with Polco to help Wisconsin newspapers better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Board on Thursday welcomed two new directors and approved three new additions to the WNA Foundation Board.
Chris White, publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, was appointed to fill the daily newspaper seat opened by the departure of former State Journal editor John Smalley.
Smalley Herman Baumann and Dave Bennett were also appointed to the WNA Foundation Board.
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