Wisconsin Policy Forum’s top 5 research findings for 2021
Jan. 12, 2022
In a review of its work over the past year, the Wisconsin Policy Forum summarizes its top five research findings of 2021.
In a review of its work over the past year, the Wisconsin Policy Forum summarizes its top five research findings of 2021.
Veteran newspaper executive Ross McDuffie has been named president of Madison Media Partners, the parent company of the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times that was formerly known as Capital Newspapers.
McDuffie joined the company in August 2020, as vice president of sales and marketing. In his new role, he will serve as the senior operational leader and chief revenue executive. McDuffie previously held roles with Rome, Georgia-based News Publishing Company and McClatchy.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he wants Michael Gableman’s review of the 2020 election to be complete with a final report by the end of February.
Old memories become blurry with the passage of time, but A particularly cold Sunday 45 years ago, when temperatures hit 60 below zero, was memorable across western and northern Wisconsin.
Emily Schendel has been named editor of the Boscobel Dial, the newspaper announced this week. She takes over for David Krier, who retired last month after 30 years in the role.
Schendel started with Morris Newspapers in high school as an intern for the Crawford County Independent & The Kickapoo Scout in Gays Mills. She has since worked as a reporter and editor for several of the company's newspapers, including the Fennimore Times, Dial, and the Independent.
Jeff Seisser is returning to Adams Publishing Group as lead sports editor for its southern Wisconsin newspapers.
Seisser stepped down from his previous sports editor role with APG in April, after more than 30 years in the newspaper industry. He had been serving as sports editor for the Sun Prairie Star, The (Waterloo/Marshall) Courier and The Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent. He previously held the same role for the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson.
In his new role, Seisser will oversee the sports departments at all 15 of the newspapers that comprise the APG Media of Southern Wisconsin group, including the Beloit Daily News, The (Janesville) Gazette, Watertown Daily Times and all of the former Hometown News publications.
Metro Milwaukee leads many peer metros in its concentration of worker talent in occupations linked to innovation and economic development, but is trending downward or lags its peers on key metrics like productivity, global exports, and venture capital investment.
Patricia "Pat" Kwallek, who served for many years as editor of the Grant County Herald Independent, died last month, the Lancaster newspaper reports. She was 88.
Kwallek started at the Grant County Independent in the 1950s, stayed on through the merger with the Grant County Herald and remained with the newspaper in various roles until her retirement in 1986. During more than 30 years with the Herald Independent, Kwallek served as a reporter, columnist, editor and photographer. She also was a correspondent for The Capital Times in the 1960s and 1970s, writing stories and shooting photos of Lancaster-area news for the Madison newspaper.
While the process of making a public records request is relatively simple, it is a formal process nonetheless and there are a few steps to follow. In the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council's latest "Your Right to Know" column, reporter Steven Potter outlines the steps required to obtain public records.
The column is available to WNA members for republication at no cost.
Michelle Drew, who has served as an assistant editor of the Vilas County News-Review since 2019, has been named news editor of the paper. Her promotion comes following the retirement of longtime editor Gary Ridderbusch.
An Eagle River native, Drew has been with the News-Review since March 2017, when she joined as a part-time lifestyle editor.
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