Category Archives: News

A TV newsroom in Wausau is one of ten newsrooms across the country to get free watchdog training from Investigative Reporters and Editor’s Total Newsroom Training program. WSAW/WZAW-TV will get two days of intensive, in-house training on watchdog journalism. This is the seventh year IRE has offered the free... - MORE -

News 3 Now (WISC-TV) Assistant News Director and political reporter Jessica Arp is leaving the Madison TV station at the end of the year. Arp was with the station for 15 years and was a veteran reporter at the State Capitol. “Thank you for welcoming me into your home so... - MORE -

You can walk into City Hall asking to see records without ever having to give your name. You can mail or email an open records request to any public entity without giving any indication of who you are. You don’t even need to submit a written request. You can make... - MORE -

Competition for the 2019 WBA Awards for Excellence begins today. Stations can now submit award entries through BetterBNC. All entries must be submitted by Jan. 8, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. You can find more details on the WBA’s Awards for Excellence page and all the categories and submission instructions... - MORE -

Thank you to all the newsrooms doing their best to serve Wisconsin throughout the year, but especially those who are away from their families today because the duty of broadcasting has them in the field or the newsroom over the holiday. Wisconsin’s broadcast newsrooms have many reasons to be proud.... - MORE -

Do you have a great idea to improve fact-finding in journalism? Apply for the Fact-Finding Innovation Initiative, a joint project of the Facebook Journalism Project and the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute. Grants will be given out at $15,000, $50,000, and $70,000. The first round of applications closes... - MORE -

If you’re busy in the newsroom, you might not be aware of all the work engineers are currently doing to prepare your TV station for new technology that could affect viewership. RTDNA is providing an update with this article about visual experiments that could be paradigm changing for TV. The... - MORE -

Eight Wisconsin broadcasters won 22 awards last weekend from the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The following awards were handed out Saturday in Chicago: Outstanding Achievement for News Programming – Evening Newscast: Smaller Markets (51+) WISC, Madison: Historic Flooding in Southern Wisconsin Stephanie Fryer,... - MORE -