Justin Lessman will serve as the next executive director of the Minnesota Newspaper Association and Minnesota News Media Institute.
Lessman will succeed current MNA/MNI Executive Director Lisa Hills, who will retire Jan. 31, 2027, after nearly four decades with the MNA, the last 20 as executive director.
Jayson Coleman has recently joined the Wausau Times as a new Sports Reporter. A recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire, Coleman holds an English-Creative Writing major and Journalism minor. The Wausau native wrote for the D.C. Everest H.S. newspaper, graduating in 2022.
It’s contest time! The 2026 Better NewsMedia Contest is officially open.
This year’s contest includes several updates designed to better reflect the work being done across Wisconsin’s news media industry.
The A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism is open to all journalists and all news organizations in Wisconsin. The A-Mark Foundation is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 1997.
Wisconsin Watch was awarded top honors for its three-part series examining why the state of Wisconsin set back-to-back national records in Supreme Court election spending
As a thank-you for your membership in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, Editor and Publisher is offering members a complimentary subscription to E&P Magazine.
Marshfield Hub City recently added Derrain Braun to the position of News Editor. Braun, who has been a Hub City staff writer for the past
Mike Hollihan serves on the Board of Directors and as Sales Director for Multi Media Channels, as well as General Manager for several paid weekly publications and websites across Wisconsin, including the Green Bay Press Times.
Two Wisconsin journalists — Bethanie Gengler and Wyatt Massey — as well as Wisconsin Watch were among 67 grant recipients announced recently by The Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Mary Culotta recently began work as the editor of Dodge County Pionier, Kewaskum Statesman and Campbellsport News.