News Podcasts
This job entailed writing and then recording a summary of the day’s top stories and weather forecast.
Journal Sentinel Podcast, Nov. 26, 2007 (MP3)
STORIES:
- Wisconsin debt surpasses $8 billion, an 87% increase in 10 years
- New Milwaukee police chief Edward Flynn comes on board
- Ethical questions raised in major research study involving 100,000 area children
- Veterans loan program helps entrepreneurs
- Theater review, “Christmas Carol,” “Twelve Days of Christmas”
- Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, Brett Favre comment on Dallas Cowboys showdown
- Germantown golfer among finalists for PGA tour
- Today’s weather
Journal Sentinel Podcast, Sept. 26, 2007 (MP3)
STORIES:
- Academic achievement gap found between black and white students
- Former governor commissions official portrait years after leaving office
- ‘Bronze Fonz’ statue to be erected in Milwaukee
- Minority drug-traffickers in Wisconsin far more likely to be imprisoned than white offenders
- Skylight Theatre postpones musical
- Spunky the Weather Dog dies
- Prince Fielder leads big Brewers win, becomes youngest player in Major League history to reach 50 homers in a season
- Brewers manager Ned Yost’s job safe for now
- Today’s weather
Journal Sentinel Podcast, Aug. 8, 2007 (MP3)
STORIES:
- Electrical fire shuts down Mitchell International Airport
- Wisconsin DOT installs devices to monitor 15 bridges in wake of Minneapolis collapse
- University of Wisconsin System raises tuition
- Liquor license favoritism claimed
- Vandalism cause $5,000 damage to city park
- Wireless network for cars envisioned
- MGIC backs out of purchase of subprime mortgage company
- Gander Mountain wins lawsuit; will resume catalogs
- Movie review: “Daddy Day Camp”
- Barry Bonds hits 756th career homer, breaking record set by Hank Aaron
- Green Bay Packers to keep Marquand Manuel as safety for season
- Today’s weather
Journal Sentinel Podcast, Feb. 1, 2007 (MP3)
STORIES:
- Wisconsin to offer affordable health insurance
- Milwaukee Archdiocese pedophile records made public
- Lawn mower manufacturers remove horsepower labels
- Obituary: Italian community leader, gubernatorial candidate
- Milwaukee Ald. Michael McGee fraud charges update
- UW-Milwaukee alerts students of sex offender’s enrollment
- Ice quakes on Lake Mendota in Madison
- Airlift Wing shutters Milwaukee base
- Summerfest announces Tim McGraw, Tom Petty, other headliners
- Green Bay Packers retired manager Ron Wolf still blames Mike Holmgren for Super Bowl loss
- Today’s weather