The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation Board of Directors has two new members — Richard E. Brown and Richard Lee.
Brown, of Milwaukee, is the senior director of retention for The Daily Beast. Lee is president of the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association.
The (Neillsville) Clark County Press has welcomed Edward DuBois as its newest reporter.
DuBois is the author of an e-book, several short stories, opinion blogs and scripts for indie YouTube investigative pieces, he told the Press during a Q&A introducing him to readers. He decided to pursue journalism, which he became interested in as a teenager, in order to “bring attention to the small things that can sometimes get neglected in the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life.”
The Wisconsin Realtors Association has decided against endorsing in the governor’s race this year, saying both Democratic Governor Tony Evers and GOP challenger Tim Michels are good on the group’s issues.
Election Day is only weeks away. The hyper-partisanship of races at all levels – from local to state to federal – demands that editors pay extra attention to press releases and letters to the editor, writes Jim Pumarlo in his latest column.
It's a good time for newsrooms to have a discussion about their planned coverage and be prepared — set the ground rules if you have not already done so, and publicize the guidelines.
The (Appleton) Post-Crescent and the Green Bay Press-Gazette recently welcomed journalists funded in part by Report for America, a national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues or communities.
Madison Lammert is the Post-Crescent's new early education reporter. Prior to joining the Appleton daily, she worked as a reporter for the (Monroe, Ill.) Republic-Times. Danielle DuClos, a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, will cover K-12 education for the Press-Gazette.
The Charles Allis Art Museum and Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum are valued arts, cultural, and historical institutions and event spaces that are valued community assets in metro Milwaukee.
I’ve always been fascinated with bridges, ever since as a youngster our family drove across the Mackinac Bridge for the first time.
Weekly Fiscal Facts are provided to Wisconsin Newspaper Association members by the Wisconsin Policy Forum, the state’s leading resource for nonpartisan state and local government research
Wisconsin’s open records law is most often used by requesters seeking to obtain records from a government agency. But occasionally it works in reverse, allowing someone to block the release of records to a requester, writes Christa Westerberg, a partner at the Pines Bach law firm in Madison and vice president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, in the group's latest "Your Right to Know" column.
You have heard the campaign slogans in television commercials and read them so many times on billboards that the words have become cliché. “Drive sober or get pulled over!” “Buzzed driving is drunk driving.” “Over the limit. Under arrest.”
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