International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors

04/17/2025

It's Ethics Week, and ISWNE is part of a broad coalition of journalism organizations speaking out in support of strong ethics.

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03/07/2025

Our latest newsletter includes three pages on the July 9-13 ISWNE conference in South Dakota and a July 7-8 pre-conference trip to Freeman (home of Tim and Jeremy Waltner).

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12/27/2024

The value of covering the local community — and printing there

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12/10/2024

"The mysterious takeover of a more than 140-year-old news outlet offers a warning of how local news is at risk of disappearing in Oregon’s rural communities, and what an online future supercharged by the next unregulated wave of technology from Silicon Valley companies may hold for news consumers."

The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelligence.

08/22/2024

"California lawmakers are abandoning an ambitious proposal to force Google to pay news companies for using their content, opting instead for a deal in which the tech giant has agreed to pay $172 million to support local media outlets and start an artificial intelligence program."

State lawmakers agree with Google on a program to help local media outlets and explore artificial intelligence.

08/16/2024

Steve Ranson is a Hall of Famer. Congrats to Steve. https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2024/aug/15/longtime-lahontan-valley-news-editor-steve-ranson-to-be-inducted-into-nevada-newspaper-hall-of-fame/?LVN+%28lahontan-valley%29&fbclid=IwY2xjawErpu9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbanKiKzVXFs2-ZXiuRn1as1Uy2X1_Me8MLgtirdCUTRWJdY4bxW5AaFrQ_aem_ugE_9DL8az3DW7aeZVJMLQ

Eight journalists who had a lasting impact in Nevada will be inducted into the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame next month, the Nevada Press Foundation announced on Aug. 15. Mary Hausch, Jake Highton, Bill Hughes, Frank McCulloch, Steve Ranson, Guy Luis Rocha, Laura Tennant and Charles Zobell will be h...

08/13/2024

"A reporter at the Cody Enterprise resigned on Friday, after the Powell Tribune confronted him with evidence indicating that he’d fabricated some of the quotes that appeared in several of his stories. In an interview just prior to his resignation, Aaron Pelczar conceded that the quotes may have been made up by an artificial intelligence tool he was using to help write his articles."

A reporter at the Cody Enterprise resigned on Friday, after the Powell Tribune confronted him with evidence indicating that he’d fabricated some of the quotes that appeared in several of his …

08/12/2024

Todd Vogts, who won the ISWNE/Huck Boyd research paper competition and attended the ISWNE conference in Toronto in June, is quoted in this article.

Concerns over policy changes at Sterling College sparked a year of frustration with president Scott Rich’s leadership, which lingers as a new school year approaches.

08/07/2024

A nice shoutout to ISWNE board member Brad Martin!

🗞️ Do you read our local newspaper?

Thanks to the efforts of editor and publisher of The Hickman County Times, Bradley Martin, our community enjoys hyper-localized news and insightful storytelling about the people who live here.

Bradley covers every major news event, sports competition, and local happening that occurs in our county of 25,000 people. He estimates he writes at least 50 articles a week, approximately 8 articles a day assuming he takes one day of rest!

Bradley was born and raised in Middleton, NJ, but he has called Centerville home for over 40 years. After cutting his teeth in the journalism field as a reporter for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Bradley followed his wife back home to Centerville.

Since 1983, the newspaper offices have been located just off of the Centerville Town Square. As you open the door to the old brick building, the smell of crisp paper and stale printer's ink will waft over you and you'll feel like you've just entered a sacred space. Bradley practices his craft in this building—leaving modern digital printing techniques behind for an adaptation of offset printing which typically uses plates to transfer ink to paper instead of electronic files. His unique process allows him to design the newspaper with his hands each week before he sends it off to the printer and into the mailboxes of Hickman County residents.

We are so grateful for Bradley's dedication to our community!

07/27/2024

Congratulations to our own Al Cross.

Maybe we'll see him in South Dakota next year? From there, it's a short trip to North Dakota for state #49.

From the article: “Al has been to 48 states and only needs North Dakota and Hawaii to complete his bucket list,” his wife Patti said.

Kentucky Hall of Fame journalist retires from UK, leaving a legacy of good journalism for rural folks and beyond

07/09/2024

A former Marion County Record reporter has settled a lawsuit over a police raid for $235,000. https://marionrecord.com/direct/ex_reporter_settles_for_235_000_in_raid_case+5542raid+45782d7265706f7274657220736574746c657320666f722020243233352c30303020696e20726169642063617365

07/01/2024

Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Hallman Jr. spoke at our 2018 conference in Portland.

Readers today are bombarded with facts and information, writes longtime Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Tom Hallman, Jr. But what we all long for is meaning and a greater connection. Those are the stories that Hallman, who is retiring after 43 years with the newspaper, sought to write.