Zane Zander, former owner of The Brillion News, dies at 88
Mar. 11, 2023
Zane C. Zander, age 88, of Brillion, passed away on Thursday afternoon, March 9, 2023, following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Zane C. Zander, age 88, of Brillion, passed away on Thursday afternoon, March 9, 2023, following a lengthy battle with cancer.
Longtime national political reporter Ted Knap died on Feb. 26. He was 102. During his career, he covered five presidents in Washington and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Knap graduated from Marquette University in 1940 with a degree in journalism. Following graduation he worked for the Waukesha Daily Freeman as a reporter and city editor for six years. In 1950, he joined the Indianapolis Times as a city desk reporter, later becoming assistant editor and, eventually, city editor of the newspaper. He became the Washington correspondent for the Times, as well as the Evansville (Ind.) Press, around 1963.
Former Wisconsin journalist Kate Franco has been named executive editor of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Arizona, where she has worked for the last 23 years, the newspaper announced Monday.
A native of the Milwaukee area, Franco earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from UW-Madison before serving as an editor at newspapers in La Crosse, Wis.; Winona, Minn., and Newport, R.I.
Hannah Coyle, who has worked as a reporter for the (Hudson) Star-Observer for nearly two years, has been named community news editor, according to an announcement published this week. Her first day in the new role, in which she will oversee news content both in print an online, was Feb. 27.
A native of Red Wing, Minn., Coyle attended Red Wing Senior High School and DePaul University, from which she earned a journalism degree in 2021. While attending college she interned with O’Rourke Media’s (Red Wing, Minn.) Republican Eagle. After graduating, she was charged with re-launching another O’Rourke property, the online River Falls Journal.
Prosecutors charged just 192 people with election-related crimes since 2012, but more than half of the cases were related to felony probation status
With the largest surplus on record, state policymakers have an unprecedented opportunity in the 2023-25 budget to make once-in-a-generation progress on some of Wisconsin’s biggest challenges.
For the 17th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council has named its annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees, in honor of national Sunshine Week, March 12-18. Five winners and one loser were selected from among an uncommonly large number of nominations.
Honorees include a group of residents concerned about the impact of a local park redevelopment, a school board member who blew the whistle on his colleagues for being too secretive, and a longtime city official who has made a habit of accessibility.
By Jim Pumarlo Editors often raise red flags – or at least hesitate – at requests for business news, and often for good reason. A
The UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics will host its 14th annual conference on Friday, April 28, at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery in Madison. It is free, open to the public and made possible by generous sponsorships from craig newmark philanthropies and the Evjue Foundation. The WNA also is among the conference's participating sponsors.
"Ethics, Urgency & Climate Journalism" will bring together news media professionals, non-profit news leaders, media innovators, academics, climate change communicators, students and the public to address the ethical dimensions of covering climate change for our local, state, national and global communities.
The classic harbingers of spring are the return of the robins, the maple sap run or the first blooms to sprout from the thawing earth.
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