Milwaukee public radio station WUWM-FM has one of the ten newsrooms selected to receive data training from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE).
The new program offers small and midsize newsrooms two days of customized in-person data training, follow-up consultation, and credits toward IRE data services.
Nearly 60 newsrooms applied for the program. The list of the ten newsrooms selected to receive the training can be found here.
Do you use an app to take notes while you’re reporting? Are you using this tool to its full potential?
This is one of the topics in this Poynter article about digital tools for journalism.
The article also discusses a tool to track hashtags, how to avoid the Google search engine, and changes to how Instagram promotes posts.
Those who subscribe will probably already know that Poynter’s daily newsletter has a new name as of today. The Morning Mediawire is now The Poynter Report.
If you’re not already subscribed, it’s a daily must-read for journalists. You can sign up here.
The RTDNA is out with it’s agenda for the Excellence in Journalism conference scheduled for Sept. 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas.
The conference features more than 70 training sessions and workshops with more than 50 major media companies, schools, and journalism organizations represented at an expo and job fair.
The schedule is available here and registration is available here.
The president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council has penned a piece that highlights how the calls for privacy protection are being used to chip away at access to public information.
The article from Bill Leuders is available here.
Lueders cites examples like a recent push to give privacy to Wisconsin Lottery winners, the redaction of dismissed cases from the state online court records system, and other cases where privacy is being used to defend decisions or proposals to withhold public information.
The Poynter Institute is hosting a four day training session designed to mentor early-career journalists in a small-group setting to unlock their superstar potential.
The “Reporting Workshop for Rising Stars” is scheduled for Oct. 13-16 and the registration deadline is Aug. 16.
“Participants will leave with a new cohort to help them achieve success beyond the four-day training.”
Learn more here.
Some state lawmakers are calling for a law that would allow lottery winners in Wisconsin to remain anonymous. Right now, their identity is a matter of public record.
The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council discussed the proposal when it met last week. Comments from FOIC President Bill Lueders were recently shared on this website.
During the discussion, it was pointed out that other states that have allowed for this anonymity have experienced cases of lottery fraud that were more difficult to uncover because of the anonymity.
It’s not often that the WBA is affected by breaking news, but this was the view from the WBA offices when a fire started at an MG&E substation on Friday morning.
The fire resulted in a power outage affecting the WBA offices, which has not yet been resolved.
As a result, the WBA offices have been closed for the day. Be safe!
Newsrooms have recently had to consider when and how to properly label something as racist.
The Associated Press is providing guidance which is explained in this broader piece recently republished by Poynter.
The article features insights from Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a leading scholar on race and history at Harvard University.
It’s natural to be competitive, but there might be cases when journalists might want to team up to tackle a huge project.
That’s the case with climate change and a numerous local newsrooms now working with National Geographic to put a local focus on a global issue.
Read more about it here and think about ways you might work with other newsrooms on topics critical to your audience.
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