WNA Foundation seeking sponsors, congratulatory ads for Hall of Fame Banquet

Oct. 20, 2022

As part of the WNA Foundation’s mission to increase public awareness and appreciation of newspapers, it annually recognizes visionaries and innovators in the industry. This year’s Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame banquet will be held on Thursday, Nov. 10 at The Madison Club, 5 E. Wilson St., Madison.

Your support — through sponsorships and congratulatory ads — helps us better celebrate inductees and helps support the WNA Foundation. 

This August's primary is spurring an unusual summer debate over two constitutional amendments backed by Republicans.

GOP tries for legislative supermajority

Oct. 20, 2022

GOP and Democrat insiders agree Republicans pining for a supermajority have a mostly clear path in the Senate, but winning 66 Assembly seats is a much bigger lift.

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Room tax revenues rebound

Oct. 19, 2022

Wisconsin room tax collections rebounded in 2021, as did leisure travel, from the pandemic plunge of a year earlier.

Seasons are just a guideline

Oct. 17, 2022

I learned a long time ago that we don’t live in a black-and-white world and the choices between right and wrong or good and evil are often veiled in shades of gray – no matter what the political ads say.

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The power of being specific

Oct. 16, 2022

It’s easy to be vague. It’s challenging to think – and communicate – in specifics, writes veteran sales train John Foust in his most recent "Ad-Libs" column.

Specifics are meaningful and generalities wander all over the place, without much significance at all. Generalities have no sticking power. Foust looks at two areas of sales that have a particular need for specificity.

Oneida County sheriff to be honored with open government award

Oct. 14, 2022

Oneida County sheriff Grady Hartman will be honored with the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's inaugural Sunshine in Government award.

The award, launched this year by the WNA Board of Directors, recognizes efforts by Wisconsin citizens and public officials to protect and strengthen open government. It will be presented during the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, Nov. 10, at The Madison Club in downtown Madison.

Milwaukee newspaper executive Beverly Klein dies at 95

Oct. 14, 2022

Beverly Klein, who had a 32-year career with The (Milwaukee) Journal Company, died on Sept. 29, at the age of 95.

Born on July 16, 1927, in Wisconsin, to Frank and Evelyn Bolger, Klein began her advertising career as a part-time classified ad taker in 1961. She retired in 1993 as senior vice president of marketing, after rising through the ranks at a time when it was rare for women to have careers at all, let alone be executives, writes Genevieve Redsten of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Wisconsin newspaper editor Jonathan Stefonek pens first novel

Oct. 14, 2022

Jonathan Stefonek, managing editor of the Lodi Enterprise & Poynette Press, has been writing stories most of his life. Now, he has written a book, reports Bridget Cooke of the Portage Daily Register.

“The Adventures of Carol and Boscobel,” features two cats who escaped from an animal shelter. Disillusioned by humanity, the pair flee to the wild to live a more authentic, feral life. But being domesticated cats, they run into some problems along the way.

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