Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Eric Kallgren    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:29pm on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

On February 2, 2009, Editor & Publisher magazine, the leading trade magazine covering the newspaper business, named Marty Kaiser, editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, its Editor of the Year:

"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editor and Senior Vice President Martin Kaiser is Editor & Publisher's Editor of the Year, E&P announced Monday.

In its February cover story, E&P notes that Kaiser was selected for the honor at a time of harsh newsroom reductions at newspapers all across the country -- leading to prominent editors being fired or resigning for refusing to make further cuts. Kaiser, though, told E&P he believes this is a particularly bad time for editors to abandon their newsrooms.

"It's a matter of leadership," Kaiser tells E&P. "If you're passionate about journalism and care about the work you do, you help the newsroom, the whole news organization, get through any kind of times."

The Journal Communications-owned Journal Sentinel has not been immune from the industry recession, and has reduced staff with two voluntary buyout programs within the space of less than a year."