If you haven’t reviewed your newsroom’s social media policy recently, perhaps it’s time to dust it off.
Poynter is offering a four-step process to revise your policy and keep it relevant.
Check it out here.
In the wake of recent mass shootings in the United States, Poynter is offering a free online group seminar to help journalists at any stage in their career develop story ideas to better cover gun violence and the gun debate in their communities. Areas of focus include: the latest proposals in Washington, D.C., measuring the effectiveness of “red flag” laws, and tips from researchers studying gun issues as well as local and national reporters covering the gun beat.
Learn more and sign up here.
NBC News Political Director and Meet the Press Moderator Chuck Todd will join TMJ4’s Charles Benson and Shannon Sims to moderate the upcoming Wisconsin U.S. Senate primary debate at Marquette University in Milwaukee. TMJ4 (WTMJ-TV) will produce and broadcast the event live on Sunday, July 17 at 6 p.m. in Milwaukee, on sister station WGBA in Green Bay, and on participating Gray Television stations throughout Wisconsin.
“We are thrilled to welcome Chuck Todd to Wisconsin for this important political event,” said Charles Benson, TMJ4 chief political reporter and anchor. “His participation underlines Wisconsin’s national importance in the upcoming elections.”
Four Democratic candidates running in the U.S. Senate primary have agreed to participate in the debate. They include Mandela Barnes, Sarah Godlewski, Alex Lasry and Tom Nelson. All four have met the metrics TMJ4 set up to qualify for the debate.
Four Republican candidates for governor have agreed to participate in TMJ4’s gubernatorial primary debate with Charles Benson and Shannon Sims on Sunday, July 24 at 6 p.m. at Marquette University. They include Rebecca Kleefisch, Kevin Nicholson, Tim Michels and Tim Ramthun. All four have met the metrics TMJ4 set up to qualify for the debate.
Marquette University has set up a ticket portal for voters to attend the Senate and Governor Debates:
U.S. Senate primary debate
Gubernatorial primary debate
In addition to TMJ4 and Marquette University, Wispolitics.com, 620 WTMJ, and the Milwaukee Business Journal are sponsoring the debates.
Core to the debate over immigration reform in the U.S. is how to handle refugees, from Ukraine, from Afghanistan, and from countries in Central America.
Poynter is offering a free webinar to provide journalists a more nuanced understanding of immigration in the U.S. in order to analyze current policy, report on reform efforts in a deeply divided Congress and understand the impact of legislation on local communities in the U.S. — not to mention those fleeing violence and persecution abroad.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 4-3 in favor of allowing DHS to release data on businesses where multiple COVID-19 cases were reported.
The following is a statement from Bill Lueders, president, Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council:
This decision properly recognizes that the public has a right to know pandemic-related information gathered by public health authorities, whether the state’s largest business group likes it or not.
It establishes that outside parties cannot swoop in to block the release of information that has been determined to be releasable under Wisconsin’s open records law. It affirms that the Legislature, in the so-called Woznicki fix of 2003, limited the circumstances under which suits to block release can be filed.
The decision does not open the door to the release of detailed medical information on individuals, as the dissenting opinion alleges. It merely affirms that statistical information gathered by the state about outbreaks at businesses is public information.
The minority opinion seems designed to stir up unfounded fears about the disclosure of personal medical information. In fact, all that is being released in the names of businesses and number of confirmed infections gathered as part of the state’s response to a public health crisis. To try to frighten people into believing that their most personal medical information is now open for all to see seems irresponsible.
Diversity in sourcing makes journalism better. It’s journalism that’s more reflective of our world and more accessible.
Poynter is sharing five questions reporters and editors should ask to diversify their sources.
You can find those here.
Registration deadline is June 16!
The goal of this one-day, fast-moving, expert-led and practical training is simple: We want to help local broadcast journalists ask more informed questions and demand more solid answers about five complex issues facing America in the 2022 midterm election cycle.
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Poynter’s experts will teach journalists the essential insights they have to know to effectively cover immigration, inflation and the economy, health care and drug costs, climate change and disinformation.
Poynter’s teaching team includes a top expert on health care who testifies before Congress, a Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration reporter and a climate expert from Climate Central. These won’t be stale lectures but instead will be tailored to journalists seeking context and clarity on behalf of their communities.
More than ever, this training is vital for busy, resource-strapped journalists who might otherwise settle for campaign talking points, allow candidates to talk in rhetorical circles or amplify common falsehoods online.
The workshop’s tuition is covered by a grant to Poynter and MediaWise from the Google News Initiative. The funder has no influence over the content of the seminar, the faculty or even the choices of where to teach the workshops. The non-partisan workshop is produced by Poynter’s senior faculty Al Tompkins who has five decades of journalism experience and is a key instructor for Poynter’s digital literacy program.
We will bring this training to five battleground states — Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida — and will reach hundreds of journalists in July and August, just in time to help them cover races after Labor Day. Poynter is proud to work with state broadcast journalism associations in each state.
Registration deadline is June 16!
Schedule
It is a full day of learning with continental breakfast and lunch provided. Below is a tentative schedule:
Instructors
Al Tompkins
Senior Faculty, Broadcast and Online
Cardiff Garcia
Co-founder, Bazaar Audio
Larry Levitt Executive Vice President for Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
Molly O’Toole Immigration and Security Reporter, Los Angeles Times
Bernadette Woods Placky Chief Meteorologist and Climate Matters Program Director, Climate Central
Interested in this workshop but not able to make it to Wisconsin? Check out our programs in other battleground states:
July 8: Phoenix, Arizona at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University
July 26: Columbus, Ohio at Quest Conference Center
July 28: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at WCAU-TV
Aug. 2: St. Petersburg, Florida at the Poynter Institute
After a string of mass shootings, newsrooms are debating whether showing photos from the incidents would made a difference in preventing future mass shootings.
Poynter wrote on the topic this week. You can read about that here.
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