Openness champions celebrated at 9th annual Wisconsin Watchdog Awards
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The 2019 Wisconsin Watchdog Awards recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government, and highlight some of the threats.
Jessica Arp, assistant news director and reporter for News 3 Now, named 2019 Distinguished Wisconsin Watchdog
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Jessica Arp, the assistant news director and chief political reporter for News 3 Now and Channel3000.com, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Distinguished Wisconsin Watchdog Award.
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Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism wins 15 Milwaukee Press Club awards for 2018 work
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The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism won 15 honors from the Milwaukee Press Club’s 2018 Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism contest for stories, photographs, audio reports and a documentary, the club announced Tuesday. Some of the awards were won in conjunction with University of Wisconsin-Madison students or Wisconsin Public Radio, which works closely with the Center to produce in-depth online and audio news reports. Winners of the first, second and third place awards will be announced at the annual Gridiron Dinner in Milwaukee on May 10. Since its founding in 2009, the Center has won 77 honors from the Milwaukee Press Club, which runs Wisconsin’s premiere all-media journalism contest. “We are thrilled by the recognition of our work.
Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council names 2019 Openness Award winners
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The Opee awards recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government, and highlight some of the threats.
The Cannabis Question
UW-Madison students and Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism explore marijuana legalization
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Student journalists are investigating various aspects of marijuana legalization in Wisconsin, which has taken on new currency with the election of Gov. Tony Evers.
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Student radio to the rescue: WSUM houses Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism while cleanup from water damage continues
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Thanks to the generosity of the students and management at WSUM (91.7 FM), the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has a new temporary home.
Seeking nominations for 2019 Distinguished Wisconsin Watchdog Award
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Nominations are being sought for the ninth annual Distinguished Wisconsin Watchdog Award, recognizing an individual’s extraordinary contributions to open government or investigative journalism in Wisconsin.
Nominations sought for 2019 Opee Awards recognizing efforts to support public access to meetings and records
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The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, a nonprofit group that works to protect access to public meetings and records, is now accepting nominations for its annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees.
These people supported fearless investigative reporting — and helped to set a record
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We asked for your help. You delivered — in record fashion! For the third straight year, donors provided gifts that qualified the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism for full funding in the national NewsMatch campaign for nonprofit newsrooms.
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Report for America chooses Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism for local news effort
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Beginning in June, a Report for America corps member will focus on criminal justice issues in Wisconsin, including wrongful convictions and official misconduct.
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Listen: Looking back on our biggest investigations of 2018
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In this WORT-FM radio interview, WCIJ Managing Editor Dee J. Hall speaks with A Public Affair’s host Patty Peltekos about our top stories of our first decade, why we joined The Trust Project, and what we learned in our major investigations this year.
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‘I’ll always be grateful’: Support the next generation of investigative journalists
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A windowless office in Vilas Hall is known to journalists across the country as the “Northern Bureau.” It’s where I and other University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism students learned an important lesson about working as an investigative journalist: It’s not as glamorous as it sounds.