As Justice Shirley Abrahamson ends her tenure on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, after 43 years and more than 1,300 authored opinions, she leaves a rich legacy of legal scholarship, importantly including her support for government transparency. While on the court, Abrahamson faithfully applied the presumption in favor of public access in the open records and… Read More: Column: Abrahamson let the sunshine in »

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… Read More: WUWM to get data training »

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… Read More: Get the most of our your note-taking apps »