Column: How to jump start your records requests

Wisconsin’s Open Records law gives requesters the right to request records from their government. After all, as the law states, “a representative government is dependent upon an informed electorate.”  But how to get started? Under the law, “any person” can make a request for records  from any Wisconsin state or local government agency or official,… – MORE –

UW to offer Digital Investigations Boot Camp

The University of Wisconsin Public Tech Media Lab in Madison is offering a Digital Investigations Bootcamp in May to provide intensive, hands-on OSINT training program in the Midwest designed specifically for journalists, OSINT practitioners, editors, and newsroom researchers. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) uses publicly available, natively digital or digitized data to reconstruct events and verify information… – MORE –

St. Hilaire named to lead WITI-TV newsroom

Amanda St. Hilaire has been promoted to vice president and News Director at Fox Television Stations’ WITI-TV in Milwaukee. She will oversee all the editorial, business, and administration functions for the station and its streaming offerings, reporting to Mim Davey, Senior Vice President and Regional General Manager of WITI-TV and KMSP-WFTC in Minneapolis. “Amanda’s leadership… – MORE –



In Depth

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 -