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Results available for poll on Derek Chauvin verdict

Polco users and readers visiting WNA member websites from April 21 to May 5 were asked whether they agreed with the jury’s guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. Out of 747 respondents, 78% said they agreed with the jury.

John Foust, advertising, ad-libs

4 common blind spots among advertisers

When we learned how to drive, we heard about blind spots.

Blind spots also are common in the advertising business, veteran sales trainer John Foust writes. In his most recent column, Foust takes a look at some examples of blind spots in sales and how advertising professionals can handle advertisers with blind spots. 

David Armiak, open records

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

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. 

multi media channels, mmc

MMC launches Wittenberg Northerner Buyers Guide

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.

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Jeff Seisser steps down as APG sports editor

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.

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