WNA Foundation award recipients were mailed their plaques and certificates over the last two weeks. Since then, some members have shared their celebratory snapshots.
Take a look at the photos we’ve received so far and send us a photo of you celebrating so we can highlight your important accomplishments.
Each year, during the annual WNA Convention & Trade Show, we salute Wisconsin photographers by highlighting their outstanding work.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic caused us to cancel our convention, we’re sharing the montage online. Take a look at some of the best shots from the last year.
The 2020 WNA Necrology pays tribute to members of the Wisconsin newspaper community who have died during the last year.
See the full montage on our website and take a look back at the many talents we’ve lost.
At the end of each WNA Foundation Better Newspaper Contest Awards Banquet, we announce the top winners in each division with a photo montage that displays snapshots of their staffs.
We didn’t want anyone to miss out on the fun this year, so we’re sharing the slideshow online. Congratulations to all of the winners!
In a letter to membership, WNA Executive Director Beth Bennett congratulates the 2019 Better Newspaper Contest award winners.
“The WNA Foundation proudly presents each of you with your well-deserved awards,” Bennett writes. “We are anxiously looking forward to seeing you at next year’s awards ceremony.”
The WNA Foundation on Friday honored the work of newspapers across the state, announcing the award winners and newspapers of the year in the 2019 WNAF Better Newspaper Contest.
Recipients of 2019 Newspaper of the Year Awards were Publisher Mary Jo Villa and The Gazette, Janesville, (Daily Division) and Publisher Gregg Walker and The Lakeland Times, Minocqua (Weekly Division).
Many issues remain to be resolved on how the loan forgiveness phase of the Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to work.
This week, new guidance has been issued on what happens if an employer tries to return a laid-off or furloughed employee to his or her old job and the employee decides not to come back. The Small Business Administration and Treasury Department warn that a good faith effort to bring the employee back must be documented.
Iowa County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Koehler issued a temporary order on Wednesday to stop the destruction of public records in the form of text messages, following the filing of a civil complaint against the village of Arena.
Former Village Clerk Taylor Scott filed the complaint against the village and its records custodians a day after the Arena Village Board voted 5-1 to declare that text messages henceforth were “not subject to maintenance as a public record.” In her order, Judge Koehler found that, to the contrary, state law “appears to provide that text messages are records.”
Five Wisconsin newsrooms have been selected to receive nearly $340,000 in grants from the Facebook Journalism Project as part of the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program, Facebook announced Thursday.
They were The Cap Times, Madison365, Wausau Pilot & Review, Wisconsin Watch and Volume One. Three of the five media outlets — Madison365, Wausau Pilot & Review and Wisconsin Watch — also received $5,000 grants from FJP in early April.
During the “safer-at-home” order, a Middleton family has started The Quarantine Times, an online newspaper featuring content created by children.
Claire Lundgren, 10, and her sister, Rachel, 8, are among many children across the country publishing their own newspaper during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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