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.
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Center hires award-winning journalist to lead Money and Politics project
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.
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Center, MAPLight.org team up to illuminate money’s role in Wisconsin Legislature
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.
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Center, MAPLight.org team up to illuminate money’s role in Wisconsin Legislature
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.
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NAMI cites Center for coverage of mental illness
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.
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Center receives five Milwaukee Press Club awards
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.
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Zweifel to be honored at first-ever WisconsinWatch.org Awards; public is invited
Dave Zweifel, editor emeritus of The Capital Times, will be honored April 20 at the first WisconsinWatch.orgdog Awards reception and dinner, presented jointly by the nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.
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Summer internship deadline is Friday
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 enrolled, at the time of application, in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where the Center is based. Pay is $10 an hour. This is a 40-hour-per-week position.
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CJR profiles student reporters’ crucial role at WisconsinWatch.org
The outstanding work of WisconsinWatch.org’s paid student interns is highlighted in a new report from Columbia Journalism Review, a widely watched industry publication.
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The birth and life of “A Tribal Tragedy”
Our package on Native American suicides was published across the country, thanks to the help of Native media organizations.
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News about us: Kudos to our UW grads
Props to two WisconsinWatch.org reporters who are graduating from UW-Madison.
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