The coronavirus has run rampant across Wisconsin’s state prison system, infecting at least 2,153 staff members at adult institutions who self-reported test results and 10,786 inmates throughout the pandemic — more than half of the current population.
The Wisconsin legislature is currently considering a bill that would give local governments the option to stop publishing a summary of their actions in local newspapers. Senate Bill 55 would allow local municipalities to post meeting minutes on their websites instead.
Removing existing publication requirements would remove important, third-party oversight of government, as well as create holes in this invaluable statewide database while also neglecting the needs of those who lack adequate computer and internet access. The WNA is asking all members to help defeat this bad public policy that undermines government transparency by:
Wisconsin Humanities’ Beyond the Headlines program will host a free, virtual workshop next month aimed at providing attendees with ideas and resources for telling stories about water justice issues related to climate change.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association is a partner of the Beyond the Headlines program, which works to bring Wisconsinites together for discussions that explore journalism’s crucial role in enabling productive citizen engagement in American democracy.
New federal charges say a group of three journalists played a major role in derailing a murder-for-hire plot in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The journalists, who have not been publicly identified, discovered the plot while working on a story about a murder-for-hire website on the dark web. The discovery led to the recent arrest of a 37-year-old woman who is accused of paying the website administrator to kill a man. She faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
The Relevance Project has updated its All Together Now promotional ad series for 2021 with three new messages that can help sales reps introduce newspaper solutions to potential advertisers as well as check on loyal clients.
The new ads replace a series timed to the initial 2020 lockdowns and business closings caused by the pandemic.
Richard Moore, an award-winning investigative reporter for The Lakeland Times, has published a book on transparency in Wisconsin’s state government.
The book, “Dark State: How Citizens Can Open the Doors to Wisconsin’s Closed Government,” was released Feb. 2 and is available on Amazon or through Moore’s website. Moore’s announcement describes the book as an urgent call to action to combat what he says is a “dangerous turn toward secrecy and censorship in Wisconsin state government.”
Five entries have been selected as finalists for the 2021 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, UW-Madison’s Center for Journalism Ethics announced Monday.
The winner will be announced at a later date. The Center typically announces its winner in March ahead of a May ceremony in New York, but amid the pandemic, it has not specified plans for 2021.
The 11 miles of railroad between Ettrick and Blair is long gone, but the story remains of “the little town that could.”
Want to get more eyes on your advertisements? John Foust offers a quick look at 12 ad design tips to attract more attention to your ads.
Lobbying efforts took a big hit last session as the COVID-19 pandemic raged, but a WisPolitics.com review found that, in many ways, the influence industry is still alive and well.
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