Joe Poirier has joined BizTimes Milwaukee as a reporter whose beat responsibilities will include health care, insurance, nonprofits and education.
Poirier was previously a business reporter for the Ozaukee Press in Ozaukee County. Prior to that, he was a reporter, editor and photographer for the Milwaukee Catholic Herald.
Former Green Bay Press Times editor Heather Graves has joined The Business News as its new editor.
Graves comes to The Business News with more than 20 years of experience in journalism and editing. She has a degree in mass communication with an emphasis in print journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and has worked in the media industry in a variety of capacities, including print journalism, broadcast journalism and public relations.
After more than two decades of effort, at least one photo has been found for each of the 58,281 service members whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, according to a press release from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
For newspaper publisher Andrew Johnson — a driving force behind the Wall of Faces campaign — the search was personal.
Oshkosh Northwestern business reporter Katy Macek has been named editor of the Fond du Lac Reporter and the Northwestern.
Macek, a Port Washington native, joined the Northwestern in June 2021 after previously working as an entertainment reporter and editor for the (Eau Claire) Leader-Telegram and as a city reporter for the Chippewa Herald. She succeeds Nat Shuda, who joined The Columbus Dispatch in April as the newspaper’s county government and growth reporter and Saturday editor.
Patti Rasmussen, a longtime journalist who worked for several newspapers across Brown and Door counties, died Thursday, Aug. 4, following a decade-long battle with dementia. She was 70.
During her 33-year journalism career, Patti worked as a reporter for the Rockton-Roscoe Herald, as special sections editor for the Green Bay News-Chronicle, and as an editor of Kewaunee County weeklies that included the Algoma Record Herald, Luxemburg News and the Kewaunee Enterprise. She also served as editor of the Door County Advocate and the Denmark Press and was an accomplished columnist. Her favorite topics were quirky anecdotes from daily life and her grandchildren’s antics.
Laurie Hieb, executive director of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers, Inc. (NAM), for 2022-23 during the organization's annual summer conference on Aug. 5 in Austin, Texas.
Beth Bennett, executive director of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, becomes immediate past president. Continuing directors are Susan Patterson Plank, executive director of the Iowa Newspaper Association, and Phil Lucey, executive director of the North Carolina Press Association.
Prepare yourself: this will be a general election campaign full of contrasts, sharp rhetoric and national implications.
The community school model, emphasizing links between schools and the communities they serve, has rapidly expanded in Wisconsin.
Despite tens of millions in state and local government incentives, the Wisconsin company is steering billions of dollars of work away from its namesake city.
I had a ghost memory the other day that took me back nearly 50 years.
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