Marta Bender News Today

After buying the ailing Milwaukee Sentinel in 1962, The Milwaukee Journal installed a turnaround crew including Navy veteran Robert H. (Bob) Wills. As city editor for more than a decade and then as editor from 1975-1991, Wills imprinted the scrappy morning daily with his forceful personality and passion for news. He became a state and national journalism leader, banking on his competitive fire to build coalitions with other media to protect press freedoms and First Amendment rights. Wills died ...

Laurie Van Dyke blazed a trail for women in Milwaukee journalism Neither the intransigence of men nor a barbed wire fence could stop Laurie Van Dyke from going after a story.  In a time when women were often denied news reporting jobs or were confined to society beats, Laurie Van Dyke became a respected Milwaukee newsroom leader.  "Laurie led the way," her former Milwaukee Sentinel colleague Marta Bender said in an email message.  "In the past, women were a newsroom minority and an editing ...