L. Roger Turner, a longtime Wisconsin State Journal photographer and mentor to scores of photojournalists, died Friday at a Madison inpatient facility. He was 84.
Turner joined the State Journal in 1966 and retired in 1997. During his career, he created some of the most iconic news photos of Madison, his obituary notes.
Doug Panek, who started at the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association part-time sweeping floors in high school, is retiring after 33 years as manager, the company announced Thursday.
The National Newspaper Association is seeking judges for its 2020 Better Newspaper Editorial Contest & Better Newspaper Advertising Contest.
All judging is done online and is user-friendly. Judges will be assigned early July and the deadline for judging will be late July.
In 2018, women continued to earn less than men for full-time work both locally and nationally. According to Census data, the median annual earnings of women in Milwaukee County was about 85% of the median among men. By comparison, women’s median annual earnings were just 79% of men’s nationally.
The Associated Press has changed its writing style guide to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue.
The news organization will also now capitalize Indigenous in reference to original inhabitants of a place.
Significant numbers of Milwaukee voters were dissuaded from voting on April 7 by the sharp reduction in polling places and the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic — with the biggest effects seen among Black voters, according to a new study.
Summer is finally here, but continued hijinks by Mother Nature make it anything but normal. And this recently completed spring will be an outlier for phenologists — those who study the cyclical ecological events and their natural timing.
Stephen D. “Steve” Ciccantelli, former publisher of the (West Bend) Daily News and vice president of sales for Conley Media, died Monday, June 15, at his lake home in Waupaca. He was 68.
In the early years of his career, Ciccantelli worked for a variety of publications, including Liturgical Publications in West Allis, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Community Newspapers in suburban Milwaukee and Lakeshore Newspapers Inc., which served Ozaukee County. He joined Conley in 1990 as advertising director of the (Beaver Dam) Daily Citizen.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin has named former journalist Alyssa Mauk as communications director, the organization announced Monday.
Mauk will handle communications strategy for the ACLU of Wisconsin, as well as media and public relations, social media and website management. She previously spent five years as a reporter for The Journal Times in Racine.
A new poll question from Polco about which canceled summer 2020 events will be missed most is now available to be used by WNA members.
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