The National Newspaper Association Foundation’s annual Better Newspaper Contest is now open to nonmembers, the NNA has announced.
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All entries must have been published between Jan. 1, 2020, and Dec. 31, 2020, with the exception of submissions to the Best Newspaper Website category, which is judged “in place.” The entry deadline is 10:59 p.m. on June 25.
A new multimedia journalism program will launch in fall 2021 at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the university announced last week.
The program, which reflects the changing industry, aims to better prepare students to produce compelling digital stories across multiple platforms. Students in the program will learn traditional news writing and reporting along with a variety of digital skills, including audio, video and web design.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation on Friday honored the work of newspapers across the state, announcing the award winners and newspapers of the year in the 2020 WNAF Better Newspaper Contest.
Recipients of 2020 Newspaper of the Year Awards were The Gazette, Janesville, (Daily Division) and the Vilas County News-Review, Eagle River (Weekly Division).
Best of Division winners also included the (Eau Claire) Leader-Telegram, The (Rhinelander) Northwoods River News, The (Ironwood, Mich.) Daily Globe, The Monroe Times and The Valders Journal.
The 2020 WNA Foundation Better Newspaper Contest included 2,051 entries from 103 newspapers. The contest was judged by members of the Texas Press Association.
See a list of all the winners, along with the judges’ comments, in our digital Better Newspaper Contest Awards Tab publication.
Did you miss the premiere of the 2020 WNA Foundation Better Newspaper Contest award ceremony? Don’t worry. You can still view a recording of the program.
This year's ceremony was held virtually due to gathering restrictions and other COVID-19 safety recommendations.
Did you win a 2020 WNA Foundation Better Newspaper Contest award and need a duplicate plaque or certificate? Place your order by March 14.
Certificates are $6 and plaques are $60. Shipping & handling is included. The typical turnaround is 3-4 weeks.
The Wisconsin legislature is currently considering a bill that would give local governments the option to stop publishing a summary of their actions in local newspapers. Senate Bill 55 would allow local municipalities to post meeting minutes on their websites instead.
Removing existing publication requirements would remove important, third-party oversight of government, as well as create holes in this invaluable statewide database while also neglecting the needs of those who lack adequate computer and internet access. The WNA is asking all members to help defeat this bad public policy that undermines government transparency by:
Wisconsin Humanities’ Beyond the Headlines program will host a free, virtual workshop next month aimed at providing attendees with ideas and resources for telling stories about water justice issues related to climate change.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association is a partner of the Beyond the Headlines program, which works to bring Wisconsinites together for discussions that explore journalism’s crucial role in enabling productive citizen engagement in American democracy.
New federal charges say a group of three journalists played a major role in derailing a murder-for-hire plot in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The journalists, who have not been publicly identified, discovered the plot while working on a story about a murder-for-hire website on the dark web. The discovery led to the recent arrest of a 37-year-old woman who is accused of paying the website administrator to kill a man. She faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
The Relevance Project has updated its All Together Now promotional ad series for 2021 with three new messages that can help sales reps introduce newspaper solutions to potential advertisers as well as check on loyal clients.
The new ads replace a series timed to the initial 2020 lockdowns and business closings caused by the pandemic.