News Media Alliance is accepting nominations for the 2020 John P. Murray Award for Excellence in Audience Development.
Nominations are due by Friday, Jan. 29. Established in 2019, the award recognizes three NMA member organizations “that have demonstrated exceptional innovation and sophistication in understanding content strategy as part of audience development.”
Editor & Publisher is accepting nominations for its 10 News Publishers That Do It Right Challenge.
Nominations are open through midnight EST, Thursday, Jan. 11. All news publishers, including print, digital, television and radio, are eligible to be recognized among the “10 That Do It Right.”
The WNA is joining with the Iowa and Minnesota newspaper associations to hold a virtual Tri-State Convention on Feb. 4-5, 2021.
Be sure to check out new, exciting changes to the program line-up, information about speakers and innovative networking opportunities this year! Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to expand your skills and meet other newspaper industry leaders.
Journalists and members of the public face a new open meetings hurdle this year as some local government bodies decline to follow the statewide mask mandate during their meetings, the Wisconsin State Journal reported this week. Residents are risking their health just to see what their government officials are up to — a burden one expert said likely violates the state’s open meetings law.
Report for America has announced that seven Wisconsin newsrooms have been selected as host newsrooms for the national service program.
The initiative of The GroundTruth Project is a two-year program that delivers a wide-range of benefits to its corps members. Beyond paying up to half of the journalists’ salaries, it provides ongoing training and mentorship by leading journalists, peer networking, and memberships to select professional organizations.
Next year, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and newly elected lawmakers likely will confront the state’s toughest budget challenge since 2011, Wisconsin Policy Forum reports in the latest installment of Fiscal Facts.
This difficult budget scenario, amid elevated unemployment, slowing state tax collections, and increased demand for social services created by the ongoing pandemic, projects general fund spending to exceed revenues by $373.1 million in the two-year budget running from July 2021 to June 2023 — a difference equal to about 1% of spending over the two years. However, that shortfall could grow considerably if the governor and lawmakers provide additional funds for other programs.
Three Multi Media Channels newspapers — the Campbellsport News, Kewaskum Statesman and (Mayville) Dodge County Pionier— will relocate in January to a single office in the village of Theresa.
The move comes following the sale of the Pionier building in Mayville. Also up for sale is the building in Campbellsport, which since April 2019 has housed both the News and Statesman.
The Center for Journalism Ethics is seeking nominations for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, the Center announced Monday. The deadline for submitting nominations is Jan. 15, 2021.
The Shadid Award, now in its 12th 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.
A judge has determined the statewide ballot question on “Marsy’s Law” was improperly worded. However, the law will, for now, remain in effect.
Since Marsy’s Law has taken effect, at least one public records custodian has indicated that he believes Marsy’s Law restricts access to certain information about crime victims contained in public records. However, as WNA attorney James Friedman outlines in a statement from the WNA
, the law includes no reference whatsoever to records and “simply has no impact on the public’s right to access government records in Wisconsin.”
As misinformation spread like wildfire in the days after Election Day — from rumors about artificially inflated vote totals to claims of ballots being mysteriously found in the early hours of the morning — Wisconsin reporters took to Twitter and other platforms to debunk false claims being spread on social media. We’ve compiled a roundup of some of their efforts.
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