David Gordon, the founding editor and board chairman of the Chippewa Valley Post, passed away on Sunday, June 11. The following memorial was written by Michael Dorsher, a CV Post board member and UW-Eau Claire colleague of Gordon. Midway through his first semester at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the assistant professor was no longer […]
CVPost thrift sale set for weekend as part of Eastside Hill’s neighborhood wide sale
The Chippewa Valley Post will sponsor a thrift sale this coming weekend as part of the annual Eastside Hill neighborhood-wide thrift sale.
The fund-raiser for the Post will be located at 915 Barland St. and will be open on Friday (May 20) from 5 to 8 p.m. On Saturday it will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday hours are noon to 2 p.m., mostly for donors to pick up unsold items
Panel discussion this evening will grapple with news media handling of newsworthy but false information
Three Chippewa Valley journalists will discuss how news media should handle newsworthy but demonstrably false Information, in a panel discussion this evening (Oct. 5).
The program, organized by the Chippewa Valley Post, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. It is part of the international observance of News Engagement Day, which aims to get people involved in some way with the news media and to increase understanding of how they operate.
Panelists include Rich Kremer, a Wisconsin Public Radio reporter based in Eau Claire; Shannon Hoyt, co-anchor of WQOW-TV’s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts; and Matt Milner, editor of the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram. The discussion will be moderated by Mike Dorsher, an emeritus journalism professor at UW-Eau Claire.
Access to the panel discussion is available through a link that can be found in the continuation of this story on an inside page. To reach it, please click on the headline.
Coverage of false statements to be discussed Tuesday in News Engagement Day panel
The dilemma that news organizations face in dealing with newsworthy but demonstrably false information will be the focus of a Tuesday evening (Oct. 5) virtual panel discussion organized by the Chippewa Valley Post as a part of the national observance of News Engagement Day.
The program – which is open to the public – will feature local journalists working in the television, radio and newspaper fields. It is intended to provide a way for Chippewa Valley residents and news media to participate in the national observance of News Engagement Day, which occurs annually on the first Tuesday in October.
Panelists will include Matt Milner, editor of the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram; Shannon Hoyt, co-anchor of the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts at WQOW-TV; and Rich Kremer, an Eau Claire-based reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio. The discussion will be moderated by Mike Dorsher, emeritus Journalism professor at UW-Eau Claire.
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BEHIND THE POST: Additions to our home page and staff
When you next take a look at the CVPost home page, you’ll notice (we hope) an important addition.
At the upper right corner of the page, we’ve added a box containing weather information from the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities area. This resulted from a CVPost board discussion this week that focused on what we could do to make our home page more useful to our audience.
Providing updated weather information was at the top of the list that emerged.
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Eau Claire Community Foundation launches first of four crowd-funding efforts on Tuesday with 17 nonprofits participating
By David Gordon, associate editor
Seventeen local nonprofit organizations were part of Tuesday’s online launch of an innovative fund-raising effort spearheaded by the Eau Claire Community Foundation (ECCF).
They are participating in the first of four crowd-funding campaigns set up by the ECCF to honor its upcoming 25th anniversary. That milestone will be celebrated on June 20, 2022, some six weeks after the close of the fourth crowd-funding period.
“Create Culture,” the first ECCF online “Grant Catalog,” will remain live from Tuesday through July 28. Three additional crowd-funding cycles will begin on Oct. 4 and on Feb. 7 and April 11, 2022. The ECCF will award bonus grants totaling $25,000 to the top fund-raising organizations in each cycle.
Local nonprofit organizations can apply for inclusion in any of the three remaining crowd-funding cycles for projects that deal with education and training, some aspect of “Green” activities and meeting people’s basic needs. Further information is available on the ECCF’s 25th anniversary web page.
To read more about this year-long ECCF project, please click on the headline.