The Chippewa Valley Post is taking a major step forward this week with the hiring of Madeline Fuerstenberg as a part-time community reporter.
We’ve also made a small but significant change in our logo. To learn more about both of these developments, click on the headline.
Behind the Post: Happy Groundhog Day anniversary
It’s four years today (Feb. 2) since the CVPost website first appeared online.
Like today, that was Groundhog Day and we joked that we’d hold off for six weeks if we saw our shadows before the launch. But, shadows or not, we decided to unveil the website.
So, happy anniversary to us. But what has been accomplished in those four years? And what’s next? Click on the headline to find out more.
CVPost to resume reviews of Chippewa Valley music events
The CVPost is pleased to announce plans to resume periodic reviews of local music events, starting with this past Friday’s performance by UW-Eau Claire’s Jazz Ensembles I and II and The Niskas, a Minneapolis-based trio of Blugold alumni.
That review, written by Jenna Luginbill, will be published later this weekend.
CVPost launches two initiatives to expand service to the community – and we need your help!
By David Gordon, CVPost Board chair The page you’re reading in the Chippewa Valley Post hasn’t changed much since we launched this online news platform nearly four years ago. It’s time to make a few changes in its appearance, and we’ll start phasing those in fairly soon. In the meantime, we’re announcing two other changes […]
BEHIND THE POST: Of Free Speech Week, the Koch Brothers and using labels as the easy way out
By David Gordon, Associate Editor and Board Chair Writing the current “Editor’s Pick” article on Free Speech Week events at UW-Stout raised a number of questions about what to include and what to emphasize. Most arose because the UW-Stout’s Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation (CSII), which is sponsoring those events, is funded […]
BEHIND THE POST: Change – new series leads to home page layout changes. . . and we’ve moved to new office space
By David Gordon, Associate Editor and Board Chair Change is the name of our game at the moment: a new series about Chippewa Valley nonprofits, a somewhat revamped home page layout and new office space. If you’re reading this, you’ve obviously worked your way through the changed layout on the CVPost home page. These changes […]