Dakota Black and Joshua Gehde are in prison for homicide after former UW Dr. Barbara Knox accused them of inflicting abusive head trauma.
Coverage of public affairs – recording the actions and inactions of governing bodies from local to federal levels – demands attention from newsrooms year-round. And for good reason. Elected officials regularly debate and craft public policies that affect citizens’ everyday lives.
If a legislator deletes an email, is it truly gone? Not necessarily.
As part of our 2022 contest judging partnership, the Arkansas Press Association needs 20 additional volunteers from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association to judge its editorial contest this spring.
The deadline to sign up is Sunday, May 1. All judging will be done online and is scheduled to begin next week, with a deadline of Friday, May 20.
Madeline Westberg, has been named lead editor of the Adams Publishing Group’s Hometown News division, where she currently serves as associate editor. Westberg succeeds Karyn Seeman who has been named managing editor of the Janesville Gazette.
As a lead editor, Westberg will direct news coverage for Cambridge, Deerfield, Marshall and Waterloo.
Karyn Saemann, managing editor of the Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent and lead editor for Adams Publishing Group’s Lake Mills office, has been named managing editor of The Janesville Gazette.
Saemann, previously worked at the Beloit Daily News, the Daily Jefferson County Union and The Capital Times in Madison. Saemann will be succeeded by Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent associate editor Madeline Westberg.
Thomas G. Larson of Minong, Wis., former owner and publisher of The Osceola Sun, died April 12, 2022. He was 86.
In 1974, Larson purchased the Sun, which he owned for 18 years. Prior to purchasing the newspaper, he worked for the Quinco Press in Lowry, Minn., and the Morris (Minn.) Sun.
While unprecedented levels of federal pandemic relief have swept into Wisconsin since 2020, the combined aid to its state and local governments ranks in the bottom 10 states when measured as a share of annual spending.
District Attorney Vince Biskupic never revealed how police helped his witness. But she finally did — more than 20 years after the fact.
Phil Haslanger, a 2021 inductee to the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame, has been named a recipience of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication's 2022 alumni awards.
The school’s alumni awards recognize achievements in academia and industry for graduates at various stages in their careers.
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