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Your Right to Know: Officials use digital dodges to hide records

May. 3, 2021

In March, The Washington Post reported that UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank sought to move a conversation around the COVID-19 pandemic and students returning to campus in the fall to a private portal used by presidents and chancellors of the 14 Big Ten universities.

It's just one example of a disturbing trend toward using digital platforms to evade Wisconsin’s Open Records Law, writes David Armiak, research director for the Center for Media and Democracy, in the most recent Your Right to Know column from the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.

MMC launches Wittenberg Northerner Buyers Guide

Apr. 30, 2021

Multi Media Channels has launched a new local community shoppers' guide in central Wisconsin, the Wittenberg Northerner Buyers' Guide.

The first issue of the shopper was set to be delivered Thursday to approximately 10,000 homes in about a 20-mile radius around Wittenberg, which lies roughly 25 miles east of the metro Wausau area.

Jeff Seisser steps down as APG sports editor

Apr. 30, 2021

After more than 30 years in the newspaper industry, Jeff Seisser has stepped down from his sports editor role with Adams Publishing Group.

For the last three-plus years, Seisser served as sports editor for the Sun Prairie Star, The (Waterloo/Marshall) Courier and The Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent. He previously had served in the same role for the Daily Jefferson County Union in Fort Atkinson.

James Moran takes over ad sales for The Chetek Alert

Apr. 29, 2021

James Moran has joined The Chetek Alert, where he will handle advertising sales duties. Moran joins the newspaper after nearly two years leading a pair of Adams Publishing Group newspapers, the Ashland Daily Press and the (Phillips) Price County Review.

He takes over the role previously held by Julie LeMoine, who is moving to a graphic design position.

Where learning went virtual for pandemic school year

Apr. 29, 2021

When K-12 classes resumed in Wisconsin last fall, urban schools with greater shares of students of color were more likely to offer virtual instruction than their suburban or rural counterparts, raising concerns about the potential for widening racial achievement gaps.

Du Charme, former editor of the Wonewoc Reporter, dies at 92

Apr. 28, 2021

Bernece Ardis Degner Du Charme, who worked nearly 30 years for The Wonewoc Reporter, died Saturday, April 17, at her home in Hillsboro. She was 92 and had been diagnosed last month with cancer.

Bernece worked for the newspaper from 1967 until her retirement in 1994. The Juneau County weekly merged with the Elroy Keystone around 1990, before printing its last issue in 1999.

Aging comes less than gracefully

Apr. 27, 2021

One of the insults of aging is that I still think I can do all the activities exactly the same as I did when I was younger. But I can’t.

Volunteers needed to judge West Virginia newspaper contest

Apr. 27, 2021

Wisconsin Newspaper Association members are being asked to consider volunteering to judge the West Virginia Press Association's annual newspaper contest. Without reciprocal judging partnerships, the WNA would not be able to hold our annual contests.

WVPA needs at least 70 WNA members to sign up by May 23 to judge across a variety of editorial, photography, design and advertising categories. All judging will be done online and is scheduled to begin in late May or early June.

Wisconsin’s multigenerational homes face higher COVID-19 risk

Apr. 27, 2021

About 13% of Wisconsin residents live in multigenerational homes, many of them families of color. These residents face a higher risk of infection and death.

Workforce housing solutions making their way through Capitol

Apr. 26, 2021

Both sides of Wisconsin’s political aisle are circulating legislation to increase affordable housing as a way to tackle workforce issues.