The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors is seeking entries for its annual Golden Quill contest, which recognizes excellence in editorial and opinion writing.
The contest is open to all newspapers that publish fewer than five days per week, including non-ISWNE members and students.
While livestreaming meetings has become the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials need to do a better job of making sure no one — and no meeting — slips through the technological cracks.
In the most recent installment of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council’s Your Right to Know column, La Crosse Tribune reporter Olivia Herken offers local lawmakers some suggestions.
The Chicago-based O’Rourke Media Group has purchased RiverTown Multimedia from Forum Communications.
RiverTown publishes two newspapers, the Republican Eagle in Red Wing, Minn., and the (Hudson) Star-Observer. RiverTown previously published eight newspapers — four in Minnesota and four in Wisconsin — before merging several publications in 2019 and closing two newspapers this year in part due to the pandemic. The sale was effective Jan. 1.
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.
The Wisconsin Relevance Project is part of a wider effort by Newspaper Association Managers aimed at uniting state and provincial press associations to speed the resurgence of community newspapers in North America.
Among the project’s benefits, it provides insights, advice, best practices, trends and other items of vital interest to community newspapers.
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.
Solutions journalism seeks to look for and cover topics of great importance by examining responses to problems, seeking out and defining solutions and sharing with readers what is working in our society and why.
In Bart Pfankuch‘s most recent installment of “Better Writing with Bart,” he discusses how to implement this new form of journalism, which can lead to positive changes in our communities and the lives of residents.
From billboards to television to direct mail, there is a lot that newspapers can learn from other advertising sources.
Veteran sales trainer John Foust takes a look at seven different advertising platforms — and what can be learned from them.
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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