More than half a dozen Wisconsin journalists and open-government advocates were honored at the 10th annual Wisconsin Watchdog Awards before a crowd of 100 people on April 21 at the Madison Club.
The Wisconsin Civics Games Regional Competitions are just a few days away! In order to make sure you’re prepared on Friday, we strongly recommend completing the following tasks.
A deputy managing editor at The Washington Post will be on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus this month as the featured speaker for the annual Ann Devroy Memorial Forum.
Sharif Durhams will speak during the forum, which will begin at 7 p.m. April 28 in Gantner Concert Hall of the Haas Fine Arts Center. The event also will be available via Zoom. The forum is free and open to the public.
Former conservative Justice Daniel Kelly is still seriously considering another run for the state Supreme Court.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Diedrich and Wisconsin State Journal State Politics Editor Matthew DeFour have been selected to receive the Distinguished Wisconsin Watchdog Award, which recognizes an individual’s extraordinary contributions to open government or investigative journalism in Wisconsin.
Diedrich was chosen as the 2022 winner, and DeFour is the 2020 winner. Because of the pandemic, no winner was chosen in 2021. Diedrich and DeFour will be honored at the 2022 Wisconsin Watchdog Awards reception and dinner on Thursday, April 21, at the Madison Club in downtown Madison.
The WNA is pleased to announce that it will begin to offer a member-only, comprehensive health care network plan through The Alliance and Trinity Marketing Services in the coming weeks, following approval by the WNA Board of Directors last month.
The WNA Alliance Comprehensive Healthcare Network plan partners with over to 34,000 doctors and health care providers across the Midwest. Using its robust provider pool, the Alliance will work with members to develop custom provider networks that optimize savings and quality.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a postal reform bill that provides more than $50 billion in financial relief for USPS and extends a new opportunity for newspapers to use mail sampling to reach nonsubscribers with promotional copies — lifting the cap on the number of nonsubscriber copies newspapers can mail at the lowest rate.
The law doesn't save mailers from steep postage increases, though. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it would increase periodicals postage rates by an average of 8.5%, effective July 10. NNA Chair Brett Wesner notes one bright spot: "USPS is finally recognizing the value of our use of flats trays for newspaper containers by passing along a 3.7% increase instead of the nearly 11% for mailing sacks."
Understanding your audience is a key component to successfully positioning for any advertising sales opportunity. In an effort to support members in this pursuit, the WNA Board of Directors recently voted to contract with research company Coda Ventures to conduct a statewide readership survey.
The study will measure total market coverage across print and digital platforms, collecting purchase profile data for the most important advertising categories. Members also will be provided end-of-campaign assets to help drive revenue success.
The WNA Board of Directors voted unanimously at its quarterly meeting on March 24 in Madison to join Competitive Wisconsin, Inc. — a non-partisan coalition that engages business, education, agriculture, and labor in strategic collaborations dedicated to strengthening and growing the Wisconsin economy.
CWI was founded in 1981 and, for more than 30 years, has engaged in strategic analysis of Wisconsin’s economic challenges and opportunities. It’s dedicated to identifying and advocating for policies and activities that will support the retention and creation of family-supporting jobs, sustain prosperity, and protect and enhance Wisconsin’s quality of life.
Newly revamped federal legislation aimed at helping news publishers negotiate deals with tech giants would create an arbitration process to settle disputes and wouldn’t apply to the biggest media companies, Alexandra Bruell and Keach Hagey report for The Wall Street Journal.
Several media organizations had expressed concerns that an earlier proposal, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, would mostly benefit the largests news companies with the greatest leverage, stifling the voices of smaller outlets. The amended legislation, which would only apply to organizations with fewer than 1,500 employees, seems to take those worries into consideration.
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