Design for Save the Date Readers Apple’s old slogan - “Think Join us this year in Eagle Different” - still works River, Wis., for the annual today for newspapers. Ed WNA Trees Retreat on Henninger says we have to Aug. 18 & 19. think different about news design, or risk having no design at all. Page 6 BulletinTHE April 14, 2016 News and information for the Wisconsin newspaper industry Legislative Bulletin Alert Gag order denied mercial and residential proper- were less drastic ways than a moves to Judge rules in favor ties in 2009,” according to the gag order to remedy problems Support of media coalition Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. caused by pretrial publicity. Attorneys representing the “I’m not convinced at this Thursdays Eliasons issued a press release point that we need a gag or- needed to A Forest County judge on on Feb. 29 commenting on the der,” Stenz said, according to We’ve changed up the pub- Wednesday sided with news or- charges a few days after the the Journal Sentinel and Marsh- lication date for The Bulletin, ganizations and the defendants criminal complaints had been field News-Herald. “There is stop notice in a securities fraud case who filed. On March 8, the state always a risk that there is going moving from Mondays to sought to block a gag order moved to prohibit any public to be pretrial publicity.” Thursdays. The switch will requested by Attorney General statements by the defendants In addition to the Wisconsin help us deliver a more timely review Brad Schimel. or the prosecution about the Newspaper Association, media newsletter, as well as better The case, State of Wisconsin case, including making state- organizations that opposed the align with the schedules of v. Eliason, involves brothers ments to the media. gag order were the Wisconsin By Beth Bennett David and Brian Eliason, who The attorney general’s office Broadcasters Association, USA many of our weekly mem- WNA Executive Director are charged with 10 felony argued it would be more dif- TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, bers. Questions? Contact counts of securities fraud after ficult to find an impartial jury Capital Newspapers, Lakeland James Debilzen at james. Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Ke- “failing to disclose the precari- due to the publicity. Printing Inc., Quincy Media [email protected]. waskum, has requested that ous condition of their business Forest County Circuit Court Inc., Gray Television Corp., and the Wisconsin Joint Leg- that sold investments in com- Judge Leon Stenz said there Rockfleet Broadcasting. islative Council conduct a formal review of how public notices are published by newspapers. Specifically, Rep. Kremer cites the need to address “new tech- Journal Sentinel sale OK’d nologies” in the current State’s largest statute (Chapter newspaper joins 985) that governs Gannett Co. the defi- Milwaukee-based Journal nition of Media Group and its flagship a legal newspaper, the Milwaukee newspaper Journal Sentinel, have been sold for the Beth Bennett to the Gannett Co. after federal purpose of regulators approved the $280 publishing million transaction on Friday. legal notices. The Journal Media Group Rep. Kremer states in his (JMG) acquisition includes 15 request to the council that daily newspapers, according to he is working on legislation a press release issued by both to change the statute that companies. JMG was formed governs the publication in 2015 through the merger of of legal notices to allow newspaper operations of The online-only news sources to E.W. Scripps Company and be designated as “newspa- Journal Communications Inc. pers of record.” This is just With the addition of JMG, another way of saying that Gannett will operate USA he would like to amend the TODAY and 107 dailies in 34 statute to allow online news states and Guam, in addition to sources to publish legal Newsquest in the U.K., with its notices. 150 local digital and print news Any member of the brands. Photo by Jimmy Emerson, DVM Wisconsin Legislature may “The Milwaukee Journal submit a request to be The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and its parent company, Journal Media Group, have been acquired by Gannett Co., Sentinel remains Wisconsin’s based in McLean, Va. Pictured here is the Journal Sentinel’s headquarters in downtown Milwaukee. considered by the Joint largest news outlet, and with Legislative Council for this acquisition becomes one of Sentinel’s history seeking trustworthy a stronger support team than study. However, the Joint Gannett’s larger news organiza- spans back to 1837, reports of news that we’ve ever had and an excep- Committee on Legislative tions,” said Elizabeth Brenner, when the Milwaukee matters to Wisconsin— tional platform for stories of Council must approve the president and publisher of Sentinel was founded, whether it’s breaking national interest.” study committees and not the Journal Sentinel, in a story according to the news- developments on a Gannett is based in McLean, all requests are accepted published by the newspaper paper. The Journal smart device; expert Va., and owns several other by the council for study. on Friday. “We will always was founded in 1882 reporting about gov- Wisconsin newspapers, includ- The goal of the WNA is to be committed to the health and later bought the ernment, business, ing the Appleton Post-Crescent, encourage the members of and strength of southeastern Sentinel from the lifestyle, entertainment Fond du Lac Reporter, Green the council to vote against Wisconsin. We look forward to Hearst Corp. in 1962. and sports; or in-depth Bay Press-Gazette, Manitowoc a Legislative Council study using the extensive resources Both newsrooms investigative reporting Herald Times Reporter, Marsh- on Chapter 985. of our new owners to serve our were merged in 1995, that no one else in our field News-Herald, Oshkosh The WNA has submitted George Stanley readers, advertisers and com- creating the Milwaukee region can do,” said Northwestern, Sheboygan Press, its response/opposition to munity partners throughout Journal Sentinel. George Stanley, Jour- Stevens Point Journal, Wausau Milwaukee.” “We’ll continue striving to nal Sentinel editor. “Gannett’s Daily Herald and Wisconsin See ALERT, Page 4 The Milwaukee Journal be the first choice for readers USA TODAY Network offers Rapids Daily Tribune. 2 THE BULLETIN | APRIL 14, 2016 Member News Free Content ‘Wisconsin Faces’ files This weekly free content, accessible at http://tinyurl.com/ WNAfreecontent, is available for use at no cost to WNA members. available to download For the past two years, the WNA and its members have joined the effort to find all of the photos of Wisconsin Vietnam Veter- ans who are listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. WNA members have been credited with finding more than 450 of the photos and were integral in the project’s completion just before Memorial Day 2015. In order to commemorate that accomplish- ment and pay tribute to the fallen Wisconsin Vietnam veterans, the WNA—in partnership with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and the Dodge County Pionier—is making the photos found through this effort available Gilman Halsted | Wisconsin Public Radio to members for publication via a memorial Beverly Walker, whose husband, Baron, is serving time at Fox Lake insert. Correctional Institution, told a Madison gathering organized by the faith- The 35-page section, which is designed to based advocacy group Wisdom in February that she has heard “horror allow for personalization, includes stories highlighting the efforts to find the images and stories” from inmates about the water. She said her husband buys bottled space made available for advertising opportu- water from the prison canteen at Fox Lake. nities. Members can access PDF and Quark files of the special section, along with featured pho- tos included in the tab and copyright releases, Information about the service members was by clicking on the following link: bit.ly/WNA- provided to the VVMF by the Department of FacesTab Defense. The photos for the project were pro- An example of the Pionier’s sales flyer vided to the VVMF Faces project in good faith can be found here: https://www.dropbox. by various volunteer sources, including family com/s/88zaqo136juprm3/Wisconsin%20 members, service members, veterans, teach- The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has made available Faces%20Flyer%202016.pdf?dl=0 ers, WNA member newspapers and the public. the latest installment of our ongoing Failure at the Faucet investigation Photos of the soldiers, which can be sort- Questions regarding the project can be di- into risks to Wisconsin’s drinking water. This report reveals that the ed by city or county by using the Advanced rected to WNA Member Services Director Julia Search tab, can be accessed at http://www. Hunter at 608-283-7622 or Julia.Hunter@ drinking water at two Wisconsin state prisons is tainted with lead and vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/. wnanews.com. copper, which can cause serious illnesses in adults. About a dozen Fox Lake Correctional Institution inmates told the Center that the water is sometimes brown or yellow, contains dark sediment and has a bad taste. The prison is under a 2014 consent order from the state Department of Natural Resources to reduce the levels of copper Analysis: Wisconsin and lead in the water. At Waupun Correctional Institution, a top union official said the management has done little to alert staff to the high lev - els of lead at the prison, which violated the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in 2014 and, as of September, continued to see high levels of lead in papers cover real news some water samples. Corrections officials say they have added water treatment and other fixes to bring down lead and copper levels, contam - ination that is caused by corrosion from aging plumbing.