Johnson retires as editor/publisher of FYI Northwoods News
Jul. 26, 2018
Eric A. Johnson, editor and publisher of FYI Northwoods News, is retiring. Read his farewell column here.
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Eric A. Johnson, editor and publisher of FYI Northwoods News, is retiring. Read his farewell column here.
Cap Times Idea Fest, a two-day event featuring lively discussions and social fun, returns Sept. 28-29 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
The WNA Foundation will honor 10 industry leaders during this year’s Memorial Pylon ceremony Aug. 17 in Eagle River, Wis.
The Milwaukee Press Club announced Monday the journalists who will be inducted into the club’s Media Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Of the eight inductees, four worked at Milwaukee newspapers. They include Elizabeth (Betsy) Brenner, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Marilyn Krause, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Stuart Wilk, Milwaukee Sentinel & Dallas Morning News; and Nathan Conyers, (deceased), Milwaukee Times.
Nash Weiss, a 21-year-old incoming senior at UW-Madison, is serving as interim editor of his local weekly newspaper, the Mondovi Herald-News.
Pete Wasson, longtime reporter and editor at the Wausau Daily Herald, has been named editor of the Ashland Daily Press. He succeeds Larry Servinsky.
A coalition of government transparency advocates have asked Wisconsin appeals court judges to reject a state lawmaker’s argument that he isn’t required to provide records electronically. Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Vandermeuse’s response to the coalition argued that Lueders’ request for the records “in electronic form, as an email folder or on a flash drive or CD” was “ambiguous” and not specifically for the files in native format.
She also wrote that the claim records should be “substantially as good” as the original isn’t the proper standard, because it’s not found in state statutes. It originates from the Attorney General’s Compliance Guide and an Executive Order by Gov. Scott Walker — sources that “merely offer guidance.”
Nineteen members of Congress, as well as Wisconsin newspaper publisher Andrew Johnson, testified Tuesday before the ITC against proposed newsprint tariffs.
Read remarks made by Wisconsin newspaper publisher Andrew Johnson to the International Trade Commission regarding proposed tariffs on Canadian newsprint.
The fourth annual Friends of Mike Golf Outing will be held July 27 at Little River Country Club in Marinette. The event, which honors long-time
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