September
2006
Nominate the Worst Reporter (Print)
Over the past few years there has been some extremely poor reporting in the metro Milwaukee market and it is in no small part the result of poor reporting. So here's your chance. Nominate the worst print reporter (we'll do a TV reporter at a later date) and explain why in the comments.
I'll even start it out… here's a few options:
Steve Schulze: This JS reporter transposes quotes and comments. He writes some intriguing stuff but you never know if it's fact or fiction.
Anyssa Johnson: This JS reporter has somehow managed to get assigned to the political beat. She focuses on innuendo and scorns issues, leaving the public in the dark and unable to discern the positives and negatives of candidates.
Feel free to go into detail.
In a few weeks we'll do a poll of the worst of the worst.
UPDATE: While we focus on politics here at Watchdog Milwaukee, Johnson has beats other than politics and she has written some good non-political stories since this was originally published.
Jim McGuigan
Jim McGuigan
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Lisa Kaiser.
Why Lisa Kaiser?
Kaiser is always having to retract statements. She is pretty bad.
Kaiser works for Shepherd Express, it should be noted — not sure there is enough there to warrant this prestigious honor.
It is difficult to think about the worst reporters when one of the best to work under the Journal Sentinel banner passed away recently. Leonard Sykes, longtime city reporter and city editor, died about two weeks ago, far too young at the age of 53. He had suffered a stroke this summer while visiting his father.
I spent a lot of time on the north side in 1996 writing neighborhoods features for Leonard, when he was city editor. No newspaper editor I ever worked for cared as much about the city and about the lives of its people than Leonard did. In the last few years of his life, one of his main concerns was that the Journal Sentinel begin to look beyond the tragedies in the headlines and write features about what was happening in the lives of young people in the inner city. He succeeded, to unknown effect it may seem from outside the JS newsroom now — but his was a presence that reached far in this city.
Leonard left the indelible mark of a man who was out to inspire and influence change in people. He wasn’t about to leave anywhere, and certainly not a newsroom, without making it a better place than it was when he walked in the door.
- ed.