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.
The WNA Foundation has decided to cancel the 2020 WNA Convention & Trade Show, the 2020 Trees Retreat and this year’s summer internship program.
The determination to cancel the convention rather than postpone it, as previously announced, was a difficult decision, but was made in the interest of public health and the best interests of our members.
In light of the decision, the WNA will announce Better Newspaper Contest winners on May 15.
News Media Alliance, with the backing of hundreds of members of Congress, is pushing for a federal advertising campaign to help support local newspapers and broadcasters.
A new program that prepares students to become the next generation of community newspaper owners and publishers has named its first group of fellows.
The WNA is encouraging newspapers to consider soliciting public service advertising from local government in order to support public service journalism during this challenging and unpredictable time.