The National Newspaper Association (NNA) has joined a campaign by journalism and good government organizations to require federal courts to end the sale of public documents through the courts’ PACER system. NNA joins others in promoting free access to these records.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation (WNAF) memorialized 11 member newspaper professionals who passed away in 2024 and 2025 at the WNAF Memorial Pylon Ceremony in the WNA Memorial Grove located on the Trees for Tomorrow campus in Eagle River on June 5, 2026.
The Lakeland Times is alleging that the Vilas County Board of Supervisors violated Wisconsin’s open meetings law when supervisors convened in closed session on May 26 to deliberate compensation changes for its county finance director position.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation has announced that nominations for 2027 Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame class are due no later than Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026.
The survey found greater trust among these 11 national news organizations individually than estimates of public trust in the mass media in general.
Port Washington City Administrator Melissa Gossett must give a deposition in an open records lawsuit filed by a Town of Port Washington resident seeking information about the Vantage Data Centers Lighthouse Campus.
A federal judge has rejected Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad’s attempt to move a state invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against him by two Lakeland Times employees into federal court, ruling that the dispute is fundamentally a state-law tort case rather than a federal campaign-finance dispute.
Wisconsin’s top election officials are urging the U.S. Postal Service to enact changes to ensure absentee ballots aren’t caught up in mail delays.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is, at times, taking nearly five years to respond to records requests, according to a May 26, 2026 article that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The annual Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism contest, presented by The Milwaukee Press Club and the MPC Endowment, Ltd., features entries accepted in two divisions —