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 […]
BEHIND THE POST: Changes underway at CVPost and in local news landscape
By David Gordon, CVPost Board chair
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been some changes at the Chippewa Valley Post, and we’re working on several others.
Most significantly, Madeline Fuerstenberg – our first community reporter – has moved on. Maddie wrote that she appreciated the opportunities the CVPost offered, but that she needed to focus on her summer TV internship.
We’ve been fortunate to hire Julia Lopez as our new community reporter, and she is already working on stories that you’ll see in the near future. Julia, a rising UW-EC senior with a double major in journalism and Spanish, will report on events and issues in the local Latinx community as part of her CVPost assignments.
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‘Comments’ option to be available – our first editorial – and welcome to a new board member
By David Gordon, associate editor
Some two months short of our fifth anniversary, we’ve reached a couple of milestones as we also welcome a new member to the CVPost board of directors.
ONE. We’re delighted to be joined by Patricia Scott on the CVPost board.
TWO. Starting on Tuesday (Dec. 17), we’ll phase in opportunities for you to comment on stories on the website.
THREE.This past week, we encountered a situation that cried out for an editorial stand – the refusal of UW-Eau Claire officials to let the public know what sanctions have been imposed on the five Blugold football players whose racist remarks on Snapchat have created a furor on campus and beyond.
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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 […]
The hiatus is over. . .
By David Gordon, Associate Editor You’ve almost certainly noticed that the CVPost website hasn’t exactly been bursting with new material over the past six weeks or so. This stems from several things, including the fact that I was out of the country from late June to mid-July – specifically, in Australia to attend the annual […]
Gordon moves up to ISWNE president’s slot at Melbourne conference
David Gordon, the CVPost’s board chair, took office as president of the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) during the organization’s annual conference, held this year in Melbourne, Australia. He was elected as ISWNE’s vice-president a year ago and moved up to the presidency during the conference that ended July 2. He has been […]