Sunday’s newspaper is least affected by printing move
I’ve got a new answer when someone asks about the top newsrooms in America today. Take a gander at the 2022 finalists for the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal in Public Service:
● Washington Post
● Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
● New York Times
Great list!
Our No. 1 job is to serve our community. This is how a self-governing society fixes its faults and moves forward. A light shines so the community can see the problem and find a better way. That’s what the Pulitzer finalist “Wires & Fires” investigation was all about. Reporters Raquel Rutledge, John Diedrich and Daphne Chen exposed the invisible danger of flawed wiring behind the walls in four out of five rental homes in Milwaukee’s oldest and poorest neighborhoods.
Since it published, the Common Council has been looking for ways to resurrect rental home safety inspections — inspections that landlords in the Legislature had dismantled. A neighborhood program has been launched to educate folks on how to spot problems and get them fixed. The Legislature is looking at requiring insurance for rental properties, which would lead to investigations into the cause of electrical fires and expose owners to legal liability if they fail to maintain safe residences. And some property owners acted quickly to repair faulty wiring in buildings our reporters examined with a master electrician.
Whenever we find or are led by our readers to an important story, we give it all we’ve got. Just a few of our other recent in-depth reports include:
● “Disconnected”: How areas in Wisconsin without high-speed broadband service are falling behind economically, as huge swaths of our nation did before the Rural Electrification Act of 1936.
● “Life Correction”: Marlin Dixon went to prison at 14 after a mob beating that shocked Milwaukee. Released at 32, he’s intent to give his life meaning.
● “Cash Not Care”: Taxpayers are paying more money than ever before to address the problem of high infant mortality in Milwaukee, but evidence mounts that the program is rank with fraud.
● “Abuse of Trust”: How political interference in a rape case exposed a tangled web of dysfunction in the Milwaukee police department and City Hall.
Our commitment to informing our democracy like no other news source in Wisconsin is unchanged by the move of newspaper printing from West Milwaukee to Peoria, Illinois.
The Sunday print edition is affected less than other days of the week by earlier newsroom deadlines required to get the paper delivered to your home on time. Our Sunday Journal Sentinel always has featured our strongest enterprise and investigative reporting about top-of-mind issues. Our new print deadlines are generally hours later than those for the old Milwaukee Journal, which printed the only Sunday paper in town until its 1995 merger with the Sentinel. You won’t see big changes or any reductions in news content.
You will find a new Sunday Plus section inside the paper. Last year, we added more pages of stories to the Sunday print edition but spread them out among our sections. Because of the way things line up on the presses in Peoria, we’re printing a separate section of Plus stories now. For the same reason, the advertising Home section will now run behind Sunday Business, starting from the back. Classified ads will run behind Ideas Lab.
As we told all seven-day subscribers last Monday, we won’t be able to get night games and late-breaking news events into the next morning’s paper. The best way to deliver breaking news and sports results today is through digital and mobile devices, and our print subscribers have access to everything we offer online. It’s easy to log in and sign up for mobile alerts and newsletters so you don’t miss any stories of interest to you. To find out how to get the most out of your digital access, go to bit.ly/MJSonline.
Our electronic version of the print Journal Sentinel — the “e-edition” — also offers two new late-breaking sections. They appear as “NN-News Extra” and “NS-Sports Extra” in the e-edition index and after the regular print sections. They include later news stories and box scores than we’ve historically been able to publish, in a traditional newspaper format.
While technology continues to change the way people get their news, the Journal Sentinel will continue to deliver that news to you, keeping Wisconsin at the center of our world, with all the tools we have available.
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