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Jun. 13, 2022
The pandemic may eventually go away but virtual meetings are here to stay.
The pandemic may eventually go away but virtual meetings are here to stay.
Members of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, family and friends gathered Thursday and Friday in Eagle River, Wis., to pay tribute to industry leaders during the 2022 WNA Trees Retreat and Memorial Pylon Ceremony. It's the first time the event has been held in-person since 2019, and inductees who were honored virtually in 2020 and 2021 were also memorialized.
In addition to being enshrined on granite pylons at the WNA Memorial Grove on the Trees For Tomorrow campus in Eagle River, this year's honorees also have been added to the WNA's virtual pylon.
A nonprofit business model is an increasingly attractive alternative for newspapers that have seen their profit margins fall and those with an interest in accessing grants and tax-deductible contributions. The potential of the nonprofit model for rural papers was the topic of programming last week during the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America.
The summit was presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues and the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky. Summit sessions can be viewed on YouTube.
The annual conference of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors — planned for July 20-23 at the University of Kentucky — will have programs on localizing national politics becoming, dealing with the challenges of social media, new business models for weeklies, the government's role in the news business, university help for community newspapers, shared interests between newspapers and libraries, and the hallmark of the conference: critiques of member editorials and editorial pages.
Registration fees start at $300 and include lodging. The deadline to signup is Wednesday, June 15. Questions? Email al.cross@uky.edu.
Fire and emergency medical service (EMS) agencies across Wisconsin are stressed, facing fiscal challenges, increasing service demands, tightening labor markets, and upheaval related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Years after they were slated to close, the state’s youth prisons continue to struggle.
It’s a rule of nature that the amount of maintenance you have to do is proportional to the amount of property you own.
Donna Nickel, the Sawyer County Record's lake columnist for the Spider Lake News, has penned her last column for the newspaper.
Nickel, a Cleveland native, has been writing the column — "leaving her unique stamp of whimsy, humor and insight on a column devoted to community news, stories, events, weather, anniversaries and birthdays" — since Jan. 8, 2014. During the last eight years, it has developed a devoted following.
Mike Johnson, sports editor for the Kenosha News since 2018, announced in his farewell column Sunday that he will be leaving the newspaper.
Johnson joined the Kenosha News as a sports reporter in 2004, shortly after graduting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked at the Badger Herald student newspaper. At the News, he covered countless high school regional and sectional games, and many state championships — as well as the NFC Championship Game that turned out to be Brett Favre’s last as a Green Bay Packer.
Alexandra Steussy-Williams, former assistant editor for Lee Enterprises' Madison based Agri-View, is the new Natural Resources Communications Specialist with University of Wisconsin-Extension, the newspaper reports.
In October 2013 — just eight months after joining Agri-View as an intern — Steussy-Williams was named the newspaper's assistant editor. After the work inspired her to dive into the confluence of conservation and agriculture, she left the newspaper to pursue a master’s degree in agroecology at UW-Madison. In her new role she works specifically on Grassland 2.0, a collaboration of farmers, academics, Extension professionals and others who work to develop pathways for farmers to increase profits, yields, and efficiency.
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