Two accomplished journalists this week joined the advisory board of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to posts on the Center’s Facebook account.
When a former student accused a Little Chute teacher of sexual assault in 2009, it took nearly six months for Superintendent David Botz months to confront him, according to a report USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin obtained through an open records request. Botz never contacted police or child protective services about the student’s report, the network’s Alison Dirr reported. He told the school board that because the student was an adult when she came forward, he didn’t believe he was required under the mandatory reporter statute to make such a report.
Fourteen major-party challengers vying for a spot in the Wisconsin State Assembly outraised their incumbent opponents over the first six months of the year, a WisPolitics.com check of campaign finance reports found.
Simpson Street Free Press reporter Zaria Glover has published her second full-length novel, the Madison after-school program reported. Glover, who attends James Wright Middle School,
The WNA Foundation will honor 10 industry leaders during this year’s Memorial Pylon ceremony Aug. 17 in Eagle River, Wis.
The Milwaukee Press Club announced Monday the journalists who will be inducted into the club’s Media Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Of the eight inductees, four worked at Milwaukee newspapers. They include Elizabeth (Betsy) Brenner, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Marilyn Krause, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Stuart Wilk, Milwaukee Sentinel & Dallas Morning News; and Nathan Conyers, (deceased), Milwaukee Times.
Nash Weiss, a 21-year-old incoming senior at UW-Madison, is serving as interim editor of his local weekly newspaper, the Mondovi Herald-News.
Pete Wasson, longtime reporter and editor at the Wausau Daily Herald, has been named editor of the Ashland Daily Press. He succeeds Larry Servinsky.
Records show that a candidate running for Outagamie County sheriff failed a background check earlier this year after he applied for a local police chief job, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reported.
Records show that the contractor that struck a gas line in Sun Prairie, causing a massive explosion, was not registered to do business in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
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