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RCFP, NPPA and CPJ to offer free training sessions for journalists covering 2020 conventions

Jul. 21, 2020

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the National Press Photographers Association and the Committee to Protect Journalists are offering offering makeup trainings for anyone who missed their sessions last week on the 2020 Democratic National Convention and other national political events.

The virtual training sessions will be hosted on Zoom on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

ER nurse reflects on death, mourning and rites of passage in the COVID era

Jul. 21, 2020

Mariah Clark is no stranger to dealing with COVID-19 in her work as an emergency department nurse at UW Health in Madison. But the virus unexpectedly touched Clark’s personal life in late June.

As Wisconsin’s K-12 student diversity grows, teacher workforce fails to keep pace

Jul. 21, 2020

The gap between the increasing diversity of Wisconsin’s K-12 student population and the lack of diversity in its teacher workforce has widened in the last decade, with large gaps in urban school districts and the divide growing most quickly in the state’s least urbanized areas.

Report for America opens newsroom applications, expands opportunity to hire more journalists

Jul. 21, 2020

Report for America applications are now open for news organizations interested in hosting emerging journalists for up to three years, beginning next June.

The national service places talented journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues and communities. The program recruits journalists and pays half the salary, up to $20,000. The other half is split between the host news organization and local donors.

Ask your Congressional representative to co-sponsor the Local Journalism Sustainability Act

Jul. 21, 2020

WNA members are encouraged to contact their lawmakers and ask them to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.

The bipartisan legislation provides direct financial incentives to support local journalism. Proposed tax credits include credit for local newspaper subscriptions, payroll credit for compensation of journalists and credit for advertising in local newspapers and local media.

Richard Lee named ICCPA general manager

Jul. 20, 2020

Richard Lee has been named general manager of Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association.

Lee takes over for retiring general manager Doug Panek. As part of his role, Lee will oversee publishing of the (Frederic) Inter-County Leader and the (Shell Lake) Washburn County Register. A UW-Stout graduate, Lee has a strong ties to Frederic.

California dreaming again, 50 years later

Jul. 20, 2020

Fifty years after he first arrived in California from Hong Kong, columnist Peter Kwong returns to visit family and remember why he loves the Northwoods.

Jobless claims tax state, but not yet employers

Jul. 16, 2020

Higher fund reserves at the start of the pandemic and state and federal action should push any broad payroll tax increases for employers into early 2022

Time to say goodbye to Dad

Jul. 15, 2020

It’s been a week since I watched Dad take his last breath. I selfishly tried to keep him with us a little longer but my life-saving attempts fell short.

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WCIJ partners with Center for Journalism Ethics on election integrity project

Jul. 14, 2020

The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison are partnering on a project to support election integrity this fall, the organizations have announced.

The effort, supported by $83,000 in funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, will focus on developing election integrity resource kits for citizens and journalists in addition to investigative reporting on voting issues in Wisconsin. Howard Hardee, a former Wisconsin State Journal reporter and current local news fellow at First Draft News, will be the lead reporter on the project.