Dan Egan, a former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter, has released a new book, "The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World out of Balance," in which he sounds alarms on both the scarcity and overreliance of phosphorus.
In 2017, Egan released "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes," which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a Go Big Read book at UW-Madison.
Theresa "Terry" Marie Coady, who established Walterry Insurance Brokers with her husband, Walter, in 1968, died on Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Fort Washington, Maryland, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's. She was 87.
In 1976, the company began writing insurance policies for news organizations and, eventually, became one of largest insurers of media outlets in the country.
David Wagner, who helped lead the 1977 newspaper strike in Madison, died on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in Tempe, Arizona. He was 78.
Wagner graduated from high school in Bradford, Pennsylvania, and went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from UW-Madison. He became poetry editor of the underground newspaper Connections, and a short-time editor of the alternative weekly, Madison Kaleidoscope. He worked at The Capital Times from 1966 to 1972, as a protege of former editor Elliott Maraniss. Following the newspaper's strike, Wagner went on to work as editorial page editor of the The Waukesha Freeman and as an editor at The Arizona Republic until his early retirement for health reasons.
Mandy Jenkins, a digital news leader who worked as a news producer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from 2004 to 2007, died Sunday, Feb. 26, in Zanesville, Ohio, after nearly four years of cancer treatment. She was 42.
She most recently worked as Head of Product at Factal, a breaking news technology company, and previously served as General Manager at The Compass Experiment, a partnership between Google and McClatchy to explore sustainable business models for local news, wrote Carrie Blazina for the Online News Association. Jenkins served eight years on the ONA Board, including a term as president from 2018-19.
Last month, John McLoone's thepaperboy.news group of newspapers purchased the O-W Enterprise from NJL Media LLC and publisher Nathan J. LePage, on the heels of just having purchased The Sentinel & Rural News, which serves the same area, from Multi Media Channels in November.
LePage will remain with the newly formed Enterprise-Sentinel through the transition period and plans to step down this summer, after 17 years with the paper.
After a gubernatorial election, the first job of the governor in the first year of the new term is unveiling the two-year state budget plan.
The Milwaukee Press Club will honor its 2023 Headliners, Derek Mosley, director of Marquette University Law School’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education and George Stanley, former editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and regional editor of USA TODAY Network Wisconsin, on Friday, May 12, at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.
During the event, the press club also will honor Anna Wolfe, an award-winning investigative reporter for Mississippi Today, as its 2023 Sacred Cat Award honoree, as well as winners of the 2022 Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism competition
The 39th President of the United States was smiling on July 27, 1979.
Less than four months later – on Nov. 4, 1979 – the defining moment of Jimmy Carter’s presidency occurred, when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 Americans hostage.
Citizen oversight board was not involved in reviewing police investigation; mayor says he was unaware independent review ordered by city had been halted
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