FeaturedJune 21 2026

Free session offers journalists training on reporting about addiction

Addiction is a complicated disease that affects every community in America. In their work to cover this complex issue, members of the press can inadvertently perpetuate problematic narratives about drug use and addiction that can increase stigma and discrimination towards people with active addiction, in treatment, or in recovery. In this free, day-long training, Reporting… – MORE –

Column: End Wisconsin’s secretive ‘pocket veto’ 

Recently, Wisconsin Watch how members of the Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee secretly hold up projects or programs they don’t like.  They often do so, reporter Jacob Resneck found, without following a state law that the committee to schedule a hearing within 14 working days of such an objection. The hearings are designed to let… – MORE –

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    Open Meetings Law

    Our state has a very powerful Open Meetings Law, which permits reporters to attend and report on all meetings of governmental bodies, boards, and commissions, and it allows reporters to record and photograph a meeting held in open session as long as you don’t interfere with the conduct of the meeting or the rights of… - MORE -