Member News

After nearly two decades at The (Rice Lake) Chronotype, associate editor Eileen Nimm retired last week. She started in 1999 as a reporter.

Ed Berthiaume, who has worked for 29 years at The (Appleton) Post-Crescent, will step down from his role as news director early next year.

Jim Dorrance, general manager of The (Rice Lake) Chronotype, is retiring Friday after more than 34 years at the newspaper.

Saturday’s print edition of the (Beaver Dam) Daily Citizen was a little thicker this week, as it launched a new “weekend edition.” 

Paul Arentz, former editor of the (Black River Falls) Hocak Worak has returned to the industry after 11 years away to become the next editor of the Hillsboro Sentry-Enterprise.

Steve Jagler, business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is leaving the newspaper to become corporate communications director of Graef, an engineering, planning and design firm in Milwaukee.

Peter Spicer, who spent about five years as a journalist for several Wisconsin newspapers, recently published his first book, according to the Waunakee Tribune. 

Stuart Levitan, a former reporter for The Capital Times in Madison, has published his second book on the city’s history, “Madison in the Sixties,”

Lee Enterprises on Tuesday announced it had appointed to vice president Christopher White, a group publisher overseeing newspapers in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and New York.