We read with interest the Associated Press story today analyzing the avalanche of emails to Gov. Scott Walker, since we published our story on that yesterday.

Dave Zweifel, editor emeritus of The Capital Times, will be honored April 20 at the first Wisconsin Watchdog Awards reception and dinner, presented jointly by the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.

Last week, I took off from the tumult of Madison for a few days to talk to undergraduate journalism students at Indiana University. I talked about what it’s like working at the Center as a reporter, multimedia producer and website manager. (Eventually, I hope to have time to think up a less cliched phrase than [...]

Next week is Sunshine Week — time to celebrate open government in Wisconsin. A guest column by Mark Pitsch, assistant city editor at the Wisconsin State Journal and a member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.

In the 1990s, only Milwaukee County lost residents.
In the aughts, Milwaukee County gained residents. But rural counties lost them — part of a larger Midwestern pattern, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison news release from today based on just-released Wisconsin census data.
Also:
• The state’s Hispanic population grew nearly 75 percent, to 336,056 in 2010
• Madison was the fastest-growing [...]

Wisconsin is hardly the Hollywood of the Midwest, but there are a few film resources here worth checking out this Oscar season.

A six-month examination of more than 150,000 reports filed by pilots and others in the aviation industry over the past 20 years reveals surprising and sometimes shocking safety breaches and close calls at local, regional and major airports throughout the country.

A gentle reminder to students in the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication: Friday is the deadline to apply for a summer internship at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Applications are due by 5 p.m.
The nonprofit Center is seeking three reporting interns for the summer.
Eligibility is limited to undergraduate and graduate students who are [...]