Member News

Vanessa Swales, a former New York Times reporting fellow, has joined Wisconsin Watch as an investigative reporter, the non-profit newsroom announced Wednesday.

Four decades after joining the Wisconsin State Journal newsroom, longtime sports columnist Tom Oates has announced his retirement.

Angie and Roger Griepentrog, owners of the Freedom Pursuit newspaper, have launched a new publication, the Seymour Source.

Shannon Rabotski is the newest member of The Monroe Times reporting staff, the newspaper announced Saturday.

Doug Panek, who started at the Inter-County Cooperative Publishing Association part-time sweeping floors in high school, is retiring after 33 years as manager, the company announced Thursday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin has named former journalist Alyssa Mauk as communications director, the organization announced Monday.

Mauk will handle communications strategy for the ACLU of Wisconsin, as well as media and public relations, social media and website management. She previously spent five years as a reporter for The Journal Times in Racine.

Michael Martoccia, a frequent speaker at past WNA Conventions, has been named vice president of digital sales and marketing for Adams Publishing Group.

In the newly created role, Martoccia will oversee digital revenue development across all APG markets, as well as sales training/enablement and the High Road Agency, APG’s internal digital organization.

The Peninsula Pulse has named former longtime Door County journalist Debra Fitzgerald as its news editor, the newspaper announced last month.

Fitzgerald, who had spent the last 11 years at a newspaper in southwest Minnesota, introduced herself to readers in a column. She previously had worked eight years in the Door County Advocate newsroom before leaving Wisconsin in 2008.

Scott Peterson, managing editor of the Watertown Daily Times and WNA Foundation Board president, has been named group editor of APG Southern Wisconsin, the group announced this week.

Robb Grindstaff, a member of the WNA Board of Directors, will retire June 30 as general manager of APG Media of Southern Wisconsin.