FeaturedDecember 3 2021

Column: Investigation records should be public

Two years ago this month, a Madison East High School teacher chaperoning a Minneapolis field trip creeped into students’ rooms using copies of their room keys and planted hidden cameras in their bathrooms. On Nov. 22, a few weeks after the teacher, David Kruchten, was sentenced to 12 years in... - MORE -

Hall moving to Milwaukee

Madison weekend anchor and reporter Tajma Hall is moving to Milwaukee. Hall is leaving NBC 15 (WMTV-TV) to join CBS 58 (WDJT-TV) where she will be closer to her hometown of Chicago. “This is an incredible opportunity to continue to grow as a journalist and I feel so blessed,” Hall... - MORE -

Reflect on journalism as a profession rather than identity

Enterprise journalist Wudan Yam is writing today for Poynter about her experience during the pandemic and the realizations she’s had about experiencing journalism as an identity, rather than a profession. You can find those insightful reflections here.... - MORE -

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Plagiarism

Never, under any circumstances, take someone else’s work and call it your own. If you take copy, video, audio, a photo, or information from another source, attribute it. If you take someone else’s material and use it without attribution, you are guilty of one of the most serious breaches of... - MORE -