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Shannon Rabotski is the newest member of The Monroe Times reporting staff, the newspaper announced Saturday.

Doug Panek, who started at the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association part-time sweeping floors in high school, is retiring after 33 years as manager, the company announced Thursday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin has named former journalist Alyssa Mauk as communications director, the organization announced Monday.

Mauk will handle communications strategy for the ACLU of Wisconsin, as well as media and public relations, social media and website management. She previously spent five years as a reporter for The Journal Times in Racine.

Michael Martoccia, a frequent speaker at past WNA Conventions, has been named vice president of digital sales and marketing for Adams Publishing Group.

In the newly created role, Martoccia will oversee digital revenue development across all APG markets, as well as sales training/enablement and the High Road Agency, APG’s internal digital organization.

The Peninsula Pulse has named former longtime Door County journalist Debra Fitzgerald as its news editor, the newspaper announced last month.

Fitzgerald, who had spent the last 11 years at a newspaper in southwest Minnesota, introduced herself to readers in a column. She previously had worked eight years in the Door County Advocate newsroom before leaving Wisconsin in 2008.

Scott Peterson, managing editor of the Watertown Daily Times and WNA Foundation Board president, has been named group editor of APG Southern Wisconsin, the group announced this week.

Robb Grindstaff, a member of the WNA Board of Directors, will retire June 30 as general manager of APG Media of Southern Wisconsin.

Jeff Gerritt, an Oshkosh native who now serves as editor of the Palestine (Texas) Herald-Press, last week was named a 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial writing.

Chris White, a veteran newspaper publisher that has been with Lee Enterprises since 2013, has been named publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, the Madison newspaper announced Thursday.

Three USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin newsrooms are asking readers to give tax-deductible donations to help with the cost of four Report for America reporting positions covering underserved communities.