Data center secrecy is unacceptable
Nov. 3, 2025
All too often, secrecy and confidentiality carry the day in proceedings of state and local government.
All too often, secrecy and confidentiality carry the day in proceedings of state and local government.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a grant of $1.16 million to establish the Upper Midwest Newsroom, a regional journalism collaboration led by Minnesota Public Radio with partners Prairie Public Broadcasting (North Dakota), South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) and Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR).
On November 10, 1975, a violent storm roared across Lake Superior with fierce winds, towering waves as high as 30 feet, and blinding snowfall. By nightfall, one of the Great Lakes’ largest and most respected freighters, the Edmund Fitzgerald, had vanished. All 29 crew members were lost.
A federal judge issued a partial summary judgment in favor of online news publishers and advertisers who alleged Google unlawfully monopolized the digital advertising market and diverted revenue that would have gone to news operations.
Former Eau Claire Leader-Telegram editor Jerry Poling has written a new book about the American Birkebeiner ski race.
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism is pleased to announce the 2025 Beyond Print Grant Program, which will provide up to $400,000 in total funding which supports independent local newspapers.
Madison’s proposed budget for 2026 highlights the city’s recent financial turnaround, as it would increase staffing and service levels while limiting the city’s property tax increase to roughly the rate of inflation.
Presque Isle Town Board members indicated there will need to be another special meeting to handle that and discussed a few other items instead — such as an open records request made by The Lakeland Times in February that hasn’t been satisfied by the town.
Tax dollars follow the students, contributing to a fiscal crisis in Beloit’s public school system. Beloit is not alone, by the way.
Online resources are available from journalism groups to help journalists who are feeling unsafe because of activity of a threatening nature online or via social media.