The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is among 30 U.S. nonprofit investigative news organizations whose stories will be circulated to publishers and broadcasters around the world in a new agreement with Thomson Reuters news service.
Posted on May 25, 2011 by WisconsinWatch in News about WCIJ, WisWatch Blog
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is among 30 U.S. nonprofit investigative news organizations whose stories will be circulated to publishers and broadcasters around the world in a new agreement with Thomson Reuters news service.
Posted on May 20, 2011 by rlarson in WisWatch Blog
Mississippi River resources covering a wide-range of topics from flooding to recreation are available on Wisconsin InfoLink.
Posted on May 18, 2011 by WisconsinWatch in News about WCIJ, WisWatch Blog
Award-winning journalist Bill Lueders, the longtime news editor of Isthmus weekly newspaper in Madison, is joining the staff of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, to lead a new project examining the influence of money in Wisconsin state politics and policymaking.
Posted on May 13, 2011 by WisconsinWatch in WisWatch Blog
When it passed the Open Meetings Act, the Legislature reserved for itself a unique exception: Members of the same party in the Senate and Assembly can meet secretly whenever and wherever they want.
Posted on May 06, 2011 by Kate Golden in WisWatch Blog
Congratulations to two reporters at our partner organizations whose work with us is being recognized!
• Brian Bull, assistant news director at Wisconsin Public Radio, won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for his series, “Menominee Suicides,” produced last year in collaboration with Center reporter Allie Tempus. Hear the series and read the Center report, A Tribal [...]
Posted on April 26, 2011 by WisconsinWatch in News about WCIJ, WisWatch Blog
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and MAPLight.org announced a major initiative to help the public and journalists investigate the influence of money in Wisconsin state politics and policymaking.
Posted on April 06, 2011 by WisconsinWatch in News about WCIJ, WisWatch Blog
NAMI Dane County has presented its annual Media Award to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism for stories that increased the public’s understanding of mental illness.
The award recognized the Center’s extensive coverage of perinatal depression among low-income mothers, Wisconsin’s high suicide rates and elevated suicide rates among Native Americans in Wisconsin and nationwide.
NAMI, the [...]
Posted on March 28, 2011 by WisconsinWatch in News about WCIJ, WisWatch Blog
The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism raked in five awards from the Milwaukee Press Club’s annual Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism, which were announced today. The Center received three first-place awards — for best coverage of a single news topic or event, best innovative online feature, and best investigative story or series.