Start the countdown... 10 days until convention Register today for the 2016 WNA/AP Conven- 10 tion and Trade Show, Feb. 25-26 at the Madison Marriott West, Middleton. http://www.wnaconvention.com BulletinTHE February 15, 2016 News and information for the Wisconsin newspaper industry Early registration ends Friday

You don’t want to miss this year’s WNA/AP Convention & Trade Show. Register by Friday, CNN spotlights keynote Feb. 19 for discounted rates. The 2016 Convention offers more than 20 educational ses- speaker Terry Anderson sions for publishers, editors, re- porters, ad managers, sales reps Terry Anderson, who will keynote the WNA/AP and circulation managers! We’ve dedicated Thursday’s training chael Koval on Thursday night. members. Visit with enough Convention in Madison, was featured by CNN in a to newspaper managers, which And of course, the convention exhibitors and you’ll have a piece that discusses how he survived captivity for will address financial issues, wouldn’t be complete without a chance at prizes, some of which nearly seven years and his life since he was re- postal regulations, employment celebration of your good work. are valued in excess of $300! leased. Watch the story at http://cnn.it/1TQfXW4. law, advertising and intellectual We’ll do this at the Wednesday The Wall of Wine and regional property law and more. Friday night Hall of Fame dinner, the raffle baskets will be back by will offer an abundance of Thursday dinner, the Friday popular demand—great ways to Anderson is the former AP chief Middle East sessions for everyone, including Honors Luncheon and the Fri- give back to the WNA Founda- correspondent who was held hostage in Beirut students. day Awards Banquet. tion. from 1985-91 by a group of Shiite militants until his Attendees will also hear from In between sessions and Register online at https:// release in 1991, being moved periodically to new former hostage and AP chief celebrating, we’ll be having fun www.regonline.com/2016w- sites. Anderson will address convention attend- Terry Anderson Middle East correspondent Ter- in the Trade Show area, where naapconventiontradeshow and ees at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 26. ry Anderson on Friday morning vendors offering products and read more about the sessions at and Madison Police Chief Mi- services will be available to www.wnaconvention.com. UW-O’s Advance-Titan reaches Convention $50,000 challenge grant goal Students: Student newspaper looks to Attend the the future after raising funds WCMA to retire $74,000 in debt By Alison Herrmann Career Fair Advance-Titan The WNA Foundation and As part of a dollar-for-dollar challenge the Wisconsin College Media grant, the UW Oshkosh Advance-Titan Association will offer an raised more than $54,000, $50,000 of opportunity for WNA mem- which will be matched by an anonymous bers to meet and interview donor, the paper announced Wednesday. aspiring young professionals The paper was forced into deficit spend- during the 2016 WNA/AP ing in the late 2000s due to the loss of its Convention and Trade Show. routine advertisements. The Career Fair will imme- Even after attempting diately follow the Honors spending cuts, attempts Luncheon on Friday, Feb. 26. at increasing of adver- College students are tisements sales and encouraged to visit each alternative funding, the newspaper’s table, equipped A-T fell $74,000 into with resumes and portfolios debt. to share with prospective The A-T worked employers. along with UW Oshkosh Employers that will be Foundation to meet the ents, regarding current and timely issues it’s around for another 100-plus years” attending include: challenge by the deadline impacting our University,” the donor said. A-T faculty adviser Vince Filak worked of Feb. 11. Between the “It’s important to have a viable stu- closely with Barbara Beuscher from the • Baraboo News Republic Vince Filak grant and the fundraiser, dent-managed newspaper on campus.” UWO Foundation to raise money. Filak said • Daily Citizen, Beaver the A-T now has more Chancellor Andrew Leavitt said com- donations for the #WeNeedTheAT fundrais- Dam than $104,000 to use for debt resolution pleting the challenge grant gives the A-T a er came from various groups of people. • Dodge County Pionier and the growth of the paper. chance to have a sustainable future. “Everyone from recent graduates to • Journal Community The anonymous donor said the A-T “This challenge grant opportunity was people who almost predated the journalism Publishing Group holds a vital role on the UWO campus and a great success and will help secure the program itself,” Filak said. “We had family • La Crosse Tribune & the growth of future journalists. Advance-Titan as a financially sound asset members of current staffers and recent Lee Enterprises “The Advance-Titan plays an import- on our campus for the foreseeable future,” graduates step up as well. We had some • Portage Daily Register ant role in developing young writers for Leavitt said. “A student newspaper is crit- faculty, staff and administrators here at • USA Today Network - after-graduation career opportunities, as ical for our campus and I – along with the UWO who also donated to our cause.” Wisconsin (Formerly well as the role student writers provide many donors who participated in the giving various constituents: friends, alumni, par- opportunity – certainly want to make sure See A-T GRANT, Page 5 See CAREER, Page 3 2 THE BULLETIN | FEBRUARY 15, 2016 Member News Legislature approves Free Content This weekly free content, accessible at http://tinyurl.com/ WNAfreecontent, is available for use at no cost to WNA workers’ comp. changes members. resentatives for business and the unemployment insurance Old provision ran labor supported the adoption statute without addressing contrary to current of the newspaper amendment. the workers’ compensation The WNA amendment to statute. practices AB 724 and its companion Removing the section from SB 536 deletes a provision the state’s workers’ compen- The Wisconsin Newspaper in the Wisconsin Workers’ sation law gives newspapers Association prevailed in its Compensation Act requiring the option to consider carriers effort to clarify the state’s that any individual delivering independent contractors if the workers’ compensation act a newspaper be considered an carriers meet a nine-point test as it pertains to the status of “employee” for the purpose already outlined in the same newspaper carriers. of workers’ compensation statute. Many WNA members The WNA amendment to AB coverage. have historically assumed 724 was adopted unanimously The language defining an the nine-point test and the and the bill was voted out of employee was enacted in 1937 employee definition were the Assembly on Feb. 9 by a during a time when the major- interchangeable, meaning a vote of 97-0. ity of people delivering news- carrier was considered an The Wisconsin Worker’s papers were minors working employee but could qualify as Compensation Advisory Coun- on a part-time basis. Identical an independent contractor if cil sent a letter to all members language was enacted at the they met the nine-point test. of the legislature on Feb. 8 same time for the state’s AB 724 will be voted on by specifically addressing the unemployment insurance law; the Senate on Tuesday, Feb. newspaper issue. The letter however, the Legislature later 16 and sent to Gov. Scott clarified that the council rep- removed the provision from Walker for his signature. Among Friends BizTimes Milwaukee 647 editions of the column “Tracking the Seasons” for BizTimes Media announced it has hired Lake Country Publications. Arthur Thomas as a reporter who will cover After leaving the Enter- manufacturing and technology for the Biz- prise, Brown worked at Times Milwaukee magazine and BizTimes. Miller O’Connell Printing The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism com. in Waukesha for the next has made available Previously, Thomas was the managing editor 22 years. He also became a story that explores one strategy that could help close Wisconsin’s of The Waukesha Freeman. He started work- the president and owner of racial achievement gap. Community learning centers provide families ing for the Freeman in mid-2013 as a reporter Sportsworld Sporting Goods with stable housing in subsidized apartment complexes in Madison and covering multiple beats, including several in Oconomowoc and in Milwaukee, as well as on-site learning centers that offer support to communities, education and politics. In April Albert Brown 1982 became the owner and students and their parents. An Edgewood College researcher who has of 2014, he was promoted to managing editor. president of Parker Printing studied the so-called anti-poverty model says it is “worth celebrating Prior to joining the Freeman, Thomas was in Hartland. He sold the an intern for WisPolitics.com and an educa- business and retired in 1996. and duplicating.” tion reporting intern at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The story by Center reporter Abigail Becker is a followup to the Center’s Wilmot High School Children Left Behind series kickoff story in December, which investigated Oconomowoc Enterprise Wilmot High School student Abigayle Bar- the state’s persistent racial and economic achievement gaps. man will attend the 2016 Washington Journal- Albert Brown, a former pressman, business ism and Media Conference at George Mason owner and longtime outdoor journalist, died University in July as a national youth corre- Jan. 16 at his home in Ixonia. He was 84. spondent. Brown worked for the Oconomowoc En- Barman will join students from all over the This week’s Discover Wisconsin column terprise as a pressman for nine years and country for an intensive study of journalism highlights eight dining destinations in Wiscon- his first outdoors column appeared in the and media. She was chosen based on academic sin that are incredibly unique. In Dairyland, we newspaper in 1953. During his career, his accomplishments and a demonstrated inter- are blessed to have four seasons of great writings on the outdoors appeared in sever- est and excellence in journalism and media weather to savor them. al magazines and newspapers and he wrote studies.

In his State Capitol Newsletter, WNA columnist Matt Kickboxing bill prompted by Pommer examines the changes to Wisconsin’s 110-year-old civil service law, which now allows for faster hiring and firing of state employees. Pommer, reporting moving through Capitol known as the “dean” of State Capitol correspon- dents, has covered government action in Madison Milwaukee Journal Senti- nal Sentinel said were obvious for 35 years, including the actions of eight governors nel — A bill that would extend signs of distress. The news or- – Warren Knowles, Pat Lucey, Martin Schreiber, Lee state regulation to all unarmed ganization’s investigation doc- Dreyfus, Tony Earl, Tommy Thompson, Scott McCal- combat sports that involve umented numerous other lum and Jim Doyle. Matt Pommer blows to the head continues to failures that delayed care for work its way through the state Munson. Legislature. The state Assembly passed The measure was introduced the bill on Feb. 9 and it passed after the death of amateur a Senate hearing unanimously kickboxer Dennis Munson Jr. on Feb. 10. Supporters of the in Milwaukee in March 2014. bipartisan bill hope it will go Munson, 24, collapsed after the unregulated fight – part before the full Senate early his fight at the Eagles Club and of the fast-growing world of this week. later died of complications combat sports. To read coverage from the from head trauma, according Officials in charge of the Journal Sentinel’s “Death in three-round bout failed to stop to the medical examiner. the Ring” series, visit http:// An investigation by the the match despite what a doz- www.jsonline.com/watch- Journal Sentinel uncovered a en independent experts who dog/watchdogreports/kick- WISTAX Facts discusses how Wisconsin is one of 19 states that does series of errors by the officials reviewed the fight video at the boxing-death-285740151. not have an age limit for justices of the state Supreme Court. responsible for safety during request of the Milwaukee Jour- html. THE BULLETIN | FEBRUARY 15, 2016 3

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News Briefs WNA-Sponsored Training Slimp requesting survey participants The DNR is already facing a public records lawsuit Personalizing the Customer Journey from an environmental group, but the new infor- A few times each year, the Institute of Newspaper mation will cause more scrutiny of cases in which Thursday, Feb. 18 | 1-2 p.m.: Personalization is the key to a great Technology conducts research related to the health political appointees have given the additional sign off ROI. When businesses send their customers relevant informa- of the newspaper industry. Kevin Slimp, director of on document releases already vetted by agency tion, they drastically increase their chances of making the sale. the Institute, is requesting that newspaper executives staff, according to the Journal Sentinel. Newspapers can use personalization in the same way. During this take a few minutes to answer a brief multiple-choice webinar, national speaker and sales trainer Allan Barmak will show survey found at http://tinyurl.com/hvg7sb7 In one case, the DNR stalled for three weeks while you the personalization tools that are available today along with staff waited for a former assistant deputy secretary examples of how other newspapers and publications are leveraging All responses are completely anonymous. This to weigh in on a response to a records request by this technology. You will learn how to build a “customer journey” information will be gathered and shared in newspa- an Appleton Post-Crescent reporter. The reporter which will engage your readers and add new revenue streams. per association publications and at industry-related asked for any hunting licenses taken out by U.S. Register here: http://www.onlinemediacampus.com/2016/01/per- conferences this year. Senate candidates Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson. sonalizing-customer-journey/ Ultimately, it turned out there were not records to Please forward this message to your publisher (or release and no story was written. Resisting Regurgitation: Proactive Storytelling other appropriate manager) or complete the survey for Today’s Readers if you are the appropriate mananger at your news- The DNR’s spokesperson, George Althoff, told the paper. Journal Sentinel the agency was following the law in Thursday, Feb. 25 | 1-2 p.m.: Presented in partnership with Gate- all cases. House Media. Do you feel like you’re always writing recaps instead DNR appointees screening some of original news stories? This presentation is designed to help you open records requests “The practice of notifying agency leadership about take your stories to the next level — instead of just telling readers the impending release of sensitive open records re- what happened. Tim Schmitt, with GateHouse Media, will share tips The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports political ap- quests is intended to ensure that DNR’s open records on how to make your stories multifaceted and people-focused, pointees at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Re- process has been followed and that the documents rather than just regurgitating the information you receive. Register sources are screening some open records requests have undergone proper internal legal review,” Althoff here: http://www.onlinemediacampus.com/2016/01/proactive-sto- by journalists and environmentalists. said. Read more >> rytelling/

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position. 2001 Fish Hatchery Road, must; extensive skill with Adobe In- Help Wanted Madison WI 53713. Equal Employ- Design, Photoshop and Illustrator is FREE FOR WNA ment Opportunity/Affirmative Action preferred. To apply go to http://lee. NEWSPAPER DESIGN INTERN - Employer. Pre-employment drug net/careers/ and select Lee Design testing applies. (0225) Center - Madison using the location Lee Enterprises is seeking a Design search menu. The deadline to apply Intern to work at its design center MEMBERS: MANAGING EDITOR OF OPER- is Feb. 25, 2016. This is a full-time in Madison, WI to produce designs ATIONS - The Lee Enterprises exempt position. 2001 Fish Hatchery and products with an emphasis on Madison Design Center is looking Road, Madison, WI 53713. Equal Em- meeting tight deadlines, following There is no charge for WNA for a highly motivated, organized ployment Opportunity/Affirmative process efficiencies and trouble- Managing Editor of Operations to members to place ads in the Action Employer - Pre-employment shooting issues. This position will help plan and coordinate design drug testing applies (0225) produce pages for newspapers Free Member Exchange. work for our team. This is a crucial throughout the United States. You leadership role for managing and DIGITAL AND NICHE PRODUCTS will produce assigned pages from WNA’s Free Member Exchange features “Help Wanted,” “Give motivating employees and serves ADVERTISING SALES SPECIAL- provided plans and budgets, man- Away” and “For Sale” ads submitted by WNA member news- as a slot editor to maintain timely IST - Wolf River Media, L.L.C. has age work and plate flow to meet papers. The Free Member Exchange is updated frequently and and consistent design production. an opening for a digital and niche assigned deadlines for multiple available online on the Employment page in the Industry Resourc- This position will be responsible products advertising sales special- editions and publications. You will es section of the WNA website and also distributed through a for managing night and weekend ist. The successful candidate will work with outside editors’ to ensure weekly email, sent to more than 800 subscribers with an interest operations and supervisors; sched- have 1 -2 years of sales experi- pages meet their expectations. in the Wisconsin newspaper industry. uling staff and coordinating efforts ence, demonstrating the ability to Knowledge of Adobe InDesign CS5 to produce myriad publications develop strategies and sales plans or comparable skill is required. Must Members may submit ads via email to: James.Debilzen@wnanews. – magazines, daily broadsheets which lead to the attainment of be able to effectively communicate com. Member-submitted ads will appear on this page for four weeks and tabloids; and upholding quality sales goals. Experience in ad sales with internal and external custom- standards for clients in our Design preferred. This individual must also and are included when Bulletins are distributed. ers as well as coworkers and man- Center, which serves newspa- possess good communication and agement. To apply go to http://lee. pers and media centers for Lee presentation skills, a valid driver’s net/careers/ and select Lee Design WNA members may also list help wanted and internship ads in Enterprises’ organizations around license, and proof of insurance. Center - Madison using the location the Iowa Newspaper Association Bulletin at no cost. Send your ad the country. This position also Compensation includes a base search menu. This is an hourly po- to [email protected] must assist in defining, developing salary and a performance-based sition. The hours are part-time and and implementing new ideas and bonus opportunity. Additional ben- will be based on student availability Ads from non-members are 25¢ per word with a $50 minimum technologies to further serve our efits include 401k, vacation, dental, during the school year. Night and per month of publication. customers. Our ideal candidate has and life insurance. Wolf River Media, weekend availability is preferred. at least 3-5 years of newspaper or L.L.C. is committed to diversity and Deadline to apply is March 12, 2016. Submit your resume business management experience; proud to be an EO employer. Email 2001 Fish Hatchery Road, Madison, has the ability to manage several resume to rbakeberg@wolfriverme- WI 53713. Equal Employment Oppor- If you are seeking work in the Wisconsin newspaper industry and tasks simultaneously; and is experi- dia.com or mail to Human Resourc- tunity/Affirmative Action Employer would like to have your resume included, please: enced in analyzing data and making es 1464 E. Green Bay St. Shawano, - Pre-employment drug testing data-driven decisions. Candidates WI 54166. (0308) applies. (0312) also must display a strong instinct • E-mail your name, the type of position you’re seeking (i.e., editori- ASSISTANT EDITOR - The Lady- for problem solving; an assertive, NEWSPAPER PAGE DESIGN- al, advertising, business, etc.), and your resume in PDF (preferred) smith News is looking for a qualified deadline-minded work ethic; and a ER - Lee Enterprises is seeking or Microsoft Word. candidate to fill an open part-time passion for news. Experience with a Designer to work at its remote • Include “Resume” in the subject line of your e-mail. assistant editor position. Editorial Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Excel design center in Madison, WI to duties will include coverage of gov- is preferred. To apply go to http:// produce designs and products for Your resume will remain online for up to three months, unless you ernment, courts and, on occasion, lee.net/careers/ and select Lee publications in a 365 day-a-year request removal sooner. community events. Camera skills Design Center - Madison using the environment with an emphasis on are a must. The applicant should location search menu. The deadline meeting tight deadlines, following be proficient with a computer and The Wisconsin Newspaper Association reserves the right to to apply is February 25, 2016. This process efficiencies and trou- have experience with InDesign® and decline resumes, and is not responsible for inaccurate resume is a full-time exempt position. 2001 bleshooting issues. We are also Photoshop®. The applicant must information sent by applicants. Fish Hatchery Road, Madison, WI looking for a design intern to work have good people skills and be mo- 53713. Equal Employment Oppor- part-time during the school year, tivated to work with a staff ded- tunity/Affirmative Action Employer or full-time over the summer. This icated to putting out an excellent opportunity to learn a wide variety screening applies. (0225) - Pre-employment drug testing position will produce pages for newspaper. Please send resumes of prepress, publishing and printing applies (0225) newspapers throughout the United related skills. To be successful in and writing samples to: Ladysmith States. You will produce assigned MANAGING EDITOR OF DESIGN this entry level position you will DESIGN TEAM LEADER - We are News, P.O. Box 189, Ladysmith, WI, pages from provided plans and - need good general computer skills looking for a team leader in our The Lee Enterprises Madison 54848. The Ladysmith News is an budgets, manage work and plate (better than basic for sure since design center to help facilitate the Design Center is looking for a equal opportunity employer. (0307) flow to meet assigned deadlines highly motivated, creative Managing the job is all computer driven!), and page design of newspapers across CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT for multiple editions and publica- Editor of Design to help plan and have a strong customer service the United States. This position will REPORTER - The Capital Times tions. You will work with outside coordinate design work for our focus. This job requires getting provide organization and profes- (captimes.com) is seeking a prolific editors’ to ensure pages meet their team. This is a crucial leadership others involved to come up with sional leadership to newspaper and versatile reporter who can expectations. Knowledge of Adobe role for managing and motivating what will get the best outcome designers serving on central desk. provide sharp and in-depth analysis InDesign CS5 or comparable skill is design employees and serves as a for the internal customer. We are You will manage and produce de- about public affairs and politics in required. Must be able to effectively key liaison to newsroom editors for looking for someone that gets signs and products for publications and around Madison, Wisconsin. communicate with internal and content planning and coordination. energized from working within a in a 365 day-a-year environment We are looking for someone who external customers as well as This position will be responsible for strong team environment, is flexible with an emphasis on meeting tight is agile, creative and who can build coworkers and management. In this communicating with other editors and calm under pressure, and has deadlines, following process effi- a following among politically inter- position you must be willing to work in story planning; supervising and a love for creative problem solving. ciencies and troubleshooting issues. ested readers. This reporter will a varied schedule with night hours producing visual concepts and Some experience in graphic design, You will train designers on custom- work to produce a range of stories and weekend shifts. Most shifts creative approaches for pages; desktop publishing and the printing er service and page design. We are for our digital-first newsroom, from are 4:00pm – midnight or 5:00pm – identifying and implementing design industry is beneficial. This is a full- looking for someone who will be daily news and features to analyt- 1:00am. This is a full-time hourly training programs for continued time hourly position and will require able to build strong relationships ical pieces, profiles, curations and position. Deadline to apply is March employee development; and up- a flexible schedule that will include with the editors you will be working investigative articles. In addition, our 12, 2016. To apply go to http://lee. holding design quality standards for nights, weekends and holidays. We with on a daily basis. Knowledge of newsroom has a strong commit- net/careers/ and select Lee Design publications in our Design Center, offer competitive compensation, an Adobe InDesign CS6 or comparable ment to covering issues of race Center - Madison using the location which serves newspapers and excellent benefits package and a skills is required. We are looking for in the community, and is seeking search menu. 2001 Fish Hatchery media centers for Lee Enterprises’ great working environment. To ap- someone who can effectively com- someone who will find such stories Road, Madison, WI 53713. Equal Em- organizations around the country. ply go to http://lee.net/careers/ and municate with internal and external challenging and valuable. While ployment Opportunity/Affirmative Our ideal candidate has at least select Lee Design Center - Madison customers as well as coworkers we continue to publish a widely Action Employer - Pre-employment 3-5 years of newspaper manage- using the location search menu. and management. To be success- distributed weekly tabloid, our focus drug testing applies. (0312) ment experience; has the ability to Deadline to apply is February 25, ful you must have the ability to and future is digital and the spirit of manage several tasks simultane- PREPRESS SPECIALIST - Lee 2016. Lee Enterprises’ has 58 daily provide guidance and insight for innovation that comes with it. We ously; and is experienced in visual Enterprises, an innovative publishing newspapers and also publishes 300 designers seeking help with pages. have dramatically grown our digital storytelling and information design. company, is looking for highly weekly newspapers, shoppers and In this position you must be willing audience, with a major emphasis Candidates also must display a motivated, well organized individuals classified and specialty publications. to work a varied schedule. To apply on social media, and have begun to strong instinct for representing with good communication skills to In addition, Lee provides a wide va- go to http://lee.net/careers/ and host community events. The suc- concepts visually; an assertive, join our energetic digital prepress riety of associated online services. select Lee Design Center - Madison cessful applicant will have at least deadline-minded work ethic; and a team. Ideal candidates will thrive 2001 Fish Hatchery Road, Madison using the location search menu. passion for news. A journalism de- in a fast paced and evolving envi- WI 53713. Affirmative Action/Equal The deadline to apply is February gree or comparable experience is a ronment. This job offers a great Opportunity Employer. Drug test 25, 2016. This is a full-time exempt See EXCHANGE, Page 5 THE BULLETIN | FEBRUARY 15, 2016 5

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rary full-time position. The deadline information or conduct research, degree, preferably in Journalism, general manager, Rock Valley Pub- EXCHANGE to apply is Tuesday March 1, 2016. and answer phones. This position newspaper experience, including lishing, L.L.C. Rjohnson@rvpublishing. Continued from Page 4 Wisconsin State Journal, 1901 Fish offers several opportunities to college programs, preferred. Must com. 815-654-4850 (0304) Hatchery Road, Madison, WI 53713. participate in major breaking news be able to communicate and work two years of significant journalism Affirmative Action/Equal Opportuni- stories and develop solid A1 clips. effectively with internal and exter- experience, proven writing skills and ty Employer. Pre-employment drug Candidates should be enrolled in nal customers, staff and supervisor. demonstrated fluency with social testing applies. (0301) college and working toward a jour- Must have demonstrated writing Seeking Work media. In this changing digital media nalism degree. Experience on a col- and reporting skills. Skills in photog- OPINION/FEATURES EDITOR - The environment, flexibility, an innovative lege newspaper is desired. Qualified raphy, video, audio and social media Posted December 2015 La Crosse Tribune is seeking a dy- mindset and an optimistic attitude candidates must be able to write (especially Twitter and Facebook) namic Opinion/Features editor who Evan Halpop - Reporter/photogra- are essential. A bachelor’s degree clearly and concisely, translate helpful. Due to the creative nature can help coordinate reader-focused pher in journalism or a related field is complicated information into stories of this position, work samples are local and syndicated content for preferred, and extensive knowl- of broad interest, and represent required to be considered for this Posted November 2015 the Tribune and assist our sister edge of Madison, Dane County and the paper with tact and profes- role. Please include either your papers in the River Valley Media Phillip A. Humphries - General Wisconsin politics is a major plus. sionalism. Excellent spelling and website where samples can be Group. This editor will uphold our assignment reporter, multi-media To apply, please submit a resume, grammar skills and a demonstrated viewed or attach a document to heritage of developing award-win- journalist, columnist cover letter, and email five writing ability to communicate effectively your profile (you will be prompted to ning Opinion pages that highlight a samples to Cap Times City Editor are required. Must have access do this). Mailed submissions are not variety of local voices and opinions. Katie Dean at [email protected]. to a vehicle. The internship will be accepted and cannot be returned. Publishing You’ll also coordinate feature and This is a full-time hourly position. a hourly full-time position, June Apply to: [email protected] (0216) Sunday advance pages with local, For Sale The deadline to apply is February 18, through August. Times and days of reader-focused content, including NEWSPAPER EDITOR - The 2016. (0218) work vary but may include nights coordinating syndicated mate- Independent-Register has an im- FOR SALE — Two (2) profitable and weekends. To be considered for COPY EDITOR INTERN - rial and freelance contributions. mediate opening for an editor. This weekly newspapers for sale in The the position applicants must apply Communication skills – both internal position is based at our Brodhead Wisconsin - owner financing with Wisconsin State Journal is looking online at http://lee.net/careers/ and external – are key, as well as a office. This weekly newspaper 10 percent down! Contact james. for a full-time summer intern to opportunities. 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ing to a college media conven- A-T GRANT Katie Knox tion and experiencing the kinds Advance-Titan Editor-in-Chief of things that inspired him as Continued from front page a student,” Filak said. “There is now money for us to enter Filak said donations also contests, so that our staffers came from many student media can see how they measure outlets, wanting to help the up against competition from newspaper. “This challenge around the state and across the “The student media world country.” was incredibly helpful as well, grant has been a Beuscher said the most with advisers from other publi- huge blessing, be- rewarding part of working on cations, the head of the Student the #WeNeedTheAT campaign Press Law Center and the lead- tween people giving was seeing how much the A-T ers at the Associated Collegiate has affected people in a positive Press all giving us help,” Filak up time, energy and way. said. “It really was a team effort “We have an impressive list when it came to donors.” money for us, we’ve of over 125 donors and that is Editor-in-chief Katie Knox a great response from the A-T said the vast number of dona- also had an increase alumni and friends of the A-T,” tions shows the importance of in interest for ads. Beuscher said. “One alum that student media. made a significant gift said that “Completing the challenge Through ad sales the amount of his gift could grant not only shows how much never repay what he got from of an impact the A-T has on the and the yearly Titan his A-T experience.“ community and the outreach A new business model will be we have, but also means that we Guide, I know we executed as the paper goes for- can continue to provide a paper ward to prevent the paper from for the students of UWO,” Knox can keep the paper falling back into debt. said. “It means we can give fu- out of the red.” “Our new model incorpo- ture journalists a chance to dive rates a few things that will be into the field.” helpful,” Filak said. “First, the According to Knox, along with ad sales and the yearly Titan chancellor has pledged support a sense of relief, completing the Guide, I know we can keep the in the form of a subscription to challenge grant allows the A-T paper out of the red.” the paper, which will provide to increase revenue of adver- Filak said the surplus mon- us with a standing block of tisement sales. ey, after paying off the debt, is revenue on which we can rely “This challenge grant has planned to go to opportunities each year. In addition, we are been a huge blessing, between for the A-T staff, present and working with a company that people giving up time, energy future. provides us with free distribu- and money for us, we’ve also “One donor noted that he tion racks and will pay us to had an increase in interest wanted to give so that students place them on campus.” for ads,” Knox said. “Through could get the experience of go-