Sara Rae Lancaster has been named social media editor for the Peninsula Pulse, the Baileys Harbor newspaper announced Friday.
Lancaster joined the staff full-time May 3 after having served as editor for the newspaper’s 2021 edition of Door Wedding. In addition to social media, her duties include feature writing for the Pulse and Door County Living.
Clint Wolf, who joined the Beloit Daily News in 1990 as AP wire editor and has served as news editor for the past 20 years, has been named editor of the newspaper.
Wolf takes over the role following the retirement of Sid Schwartz, who had served as editor of the Daily News since November. Prior to Schwartz, the position had been held for more than 40 years by Bill Barth, a member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Anna Marie Lux, a longtime columnist for The (Janesville) Gazette, has resigned from the newspaper to pursue an independent writing project.
Lux began writing human-interest columns for The Gazette in the early 1990s. She remained with the newspaper for 30 years, and by her count, wrote nearly 3,000 columns during that time.
Eric Schmoldt has stepped down as sports editor of The (Janesville) Gazette after more than eight years in the role, he announced in a column Friday.
Multi Media Channels has launched a new local community shoppers' guide in central Wisconsin, the Wittenberg Northerner Buyers' Guide.
The first issue of the shopper was set to be delivered Thursday to approximately 10,000 homes in about a 20-mile radius around Wittenberg, which lies roughly 25 miles east of the metro Wausau area.
After more than 30 years in the newspaper industry, Jeff Seisser has stepped down from his sports editor role with Adams Publishing Group.
For the last three-plus years, Seisser served as sports editor for the Sun Prairie Star, The (Waterloo/Marshall) Courier and The Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent. He previously had served in the same role for the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson.
James Moran has joined The Chetek Alert, where he will handle advertising sales duties. Moran joins the newspaper after nearly two years leading a pair of Adams Publishing Group newspapers, the Ashland Daily Press and the (Phillips) Price County Review.
He takes over the role previously held by Julie LeMoine, who is moving to a graphic design position.
After a year of primarily remote work, Unified Newspaper Group is consolidating in-person operations into its downtown Oregon office.
The move will close the group’s longtime Verona headquarters and move all four newspapers to 156 N. Main St., Oregon. UNG publishes The Verona Press, The Oregon Observer, The Stoughton Courier Hub and the Fitchburg Star. UNG general manager Jim Ferolie said in the announcement that consolidating will reduce the group’s facility costs by about 90%.
Benjamin Pierce is the newest member of the Unified Newspaper Group reporting staff. He will cover sports and community news.
Pierce previously spent two years with The (Janesville) Gazette as an education reporter, while covering sports part-time. A La Crosse native, he was a sportswriter for nearby Lee Enterprises’ weekly newspapers while attending Western Technical College. He later attended UW-Whitewater, where he served as assistant news editor and managing editor of the Royal Purple student newspaper.
Hallie Chasensky is joining the Amery Free Press advertising staff, the newspaper announced Tuesday.
Chasensky will serve as a multimedia sales consultant for the Free Press. She will succeed Pam Humpal, who plans to retire from the newspaper this summer. A native of St. Paul, Minn., Chasensky earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing communications from UW-River Falls.
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