Agriculture
Podcast and gallery: Karst + waste + drinking water = trouble
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Two bonus features supplementing last week’s major package on estrogenic wells in Wisconsin’s karst region.
News about WCIJ
Reporting from Lambeau Field and beyond, video testimonials from far-flung former interns
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Two accomplished young journalists, Jacob Kushner and Lukas Keapproth, talk about what their Center internships did for them.
News about WCIJ
Your voices: Testimonials about the Center
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“Wanted: A few kind words.”
With that email subject line, we reached out in December 2013 to journalists, journalism educators and the public, asking: “Would you be willing to write a sentence or so about the value of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s work?”
News about WCIJ
Center hiring three summer investigative reporting interns
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The award-winning Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is seeking applicants for three paid summer internships. The interns will report on investigative stories and may use other skills, including photography and data analysis and visualization, to produce investigative coverage.
WisWatch Blog
In memoriam: IowaWatch director Richard Tapscott, major figure in Iowa journalism
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Richard Tapscott, a major figure in Iowa journalism and original member of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism board of directors, died Sunday at age 65.
agribusiness
Slaughterhouses across the country: A collaborative map
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The Center helped Harvest Public Media map meat packers nationwide for a Harvest series, “In the Shadows of the Slaughterhouses.”
attorneys
Podcast: Scraping the Wisconsin Supreme Court
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Today we’re continuing our new occasional podcast series with a conversation between the Center’s Kate Golden and freelancer Jake Harper, about his recently published piece showing that over the past decade, Wisconsin Supreme Court justices tended to favor clients whose attorneys had donated to their campaigns, and recused themselves from just 2 percent of cases involving attorney donors.
Frac Sand Rush
October update: Wisconsin’s frac sand industry map
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Wisconsin’s frac sand boom may have slowed, but the number of permitted and proposed facilities still has grown since the Center’s May tally.
Wolf hunting
DNR criticizes Center’s wolf hunt story
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The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism stands by its report on the state Department of Natural Resources’ management of the wolf population.
reporter's diary
Reporter’s diary: A surprise at the sand conference
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When I started reporting on the frac sand beat for my Center internship, I had no inkling that silica sand mining could have much of anything to do with my hometown of Minneapolis.
Emergency Alerts
Shot fired, texts deployed at UW
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Police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used an unprecedented amount of texts and social media to communicate with campus during an emergency Sept. 18.
Open records
Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council statement on claims of legislative immunity to open records law
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So far as we can recall, no lawmaker has ever before tried to defeat the state’s open records law by employing this ruse. We are deeply disappointed in both Sen. Vukmir and the Attorney General’s Office, for the position it has taken.