A shortage of truckers and blockade bottlenecks have put a crimp on newsprint deliveries to the nation’s newspapers.
Those delays, combined with fears of a newsprint shortage, have raised publishers’ anxiety and put a premium on delivery schedule planning.
Nominations for the Gish Award for courage, integrity and tenacity in rural journalism are now being accepted, the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues announced last week.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, April 1. Nominations should be emailed to Institute Director Al Cross at al.cross@uky.edu and should include a detailed letter explaining how the nominee shows courage, tenacity and integrity, as well as any documentation of the same.
A judge on Wednesday ruled Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and former state Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman violated the state’s public records law by refusing to turn over documents and delaying the release of others.
Vos and Gableman “arbitrarily and capriciously denied or delayed access to records,” according to Dane County Circuit Court Judge Frank Remington
The Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host its 13th annual journalism ethics conference at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery on Friday, April 29, in Madison. The conference is free, open to the public and made possible by generous sponsorships from Craig Newmark Philanthropies and the Evjue Foundation.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association, which is also a conference sponsor, will send out a link to the virtual conference to WNA members on the day of the event.
The National Newspaper Association Foundation this week announced that this year's News Fellows program will go virtual.
The fellowship will focus on climate change and be held on March 15. There were seven open spots as of Tuesday, which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Interested students or those wishing to nominate a Wisconsin college student for the fellowship should contact Lisa McGraw, public affairs manager for the Michigan Press Association, at lisa@michiganpress.org.
The COVID-19 pandemic decreased the earnings of many Milwaukee County artists and creatives, and while their income opportunities partially rebounded by the second half of 2021, they remained shy of pre-pandemic levels.
Four entries have been selected as finalists for the 2022 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, UW-Madison's Center for Journalism Ethics announced this week. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize and be invited to accept the award and discuss their reporting at an awards ceremony in New York on May 17.
The Shadid Award, now in its 13th year, recognizes ethical decisions in reporting stories in any medium, including print, broadcast and digital, by journalists working for established news organizations or publishing individually. The award focuses on current journalism and does not include books, documentaries or other long-term projects.
Tickets for the University of Wisconsin’s annual Varsity Band Spring Concert are now on sale. This year’s concert is the band’s first since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will feature two shows, each beginning at 7:30 p.m., on Friday, April 22, and Saturday, April 23, at the Kohl Center on the UW-Madison campus.
Concert highlights this year will include “Bohemian Wait for It,” “Country Classics,” “The Music of Panic at the Disco,” and classic UW favorites like “Space Badgers,” “If You Want to Be a Badger” and the signature Badger Band finale. All proceeds from the event benefit the band.
Members of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Ways and Means heard testimony on Wednesday in support of a bill that would provide small businesses with a tax credit to advertise in local media.
Speaking on behalf of the members of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association were Mike Hollihan, Multi Media Channels, Richard Lee, Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association, WNA President Gregg Walker, The Lakeland Times (Minocqua) and WNA executive director Beth Bennett. Representatives of Wisconsin-based media were joined in supporting the measure by the Rebuild Local News Coalition.
As part of our 2022 contest judging partnership, the Arkansas Press Association needs at least 10 volunteers from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association to judge its advertising contest next month. The deadline to sign up is Friday, Feb. 4. All judging will be done online and is scheduled to begin Monday, Feb. 7, with a deadline of Friday, Feb. 18.
If you have any questions, email WNA Membership & Programming Specialist Jordan Schelling at jordan.schelling@wnanews.com.
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