Enterprise Stories

Links to a sampling of the newspaper’s best enterprise stories from the previous year selected by Editor, John Smalley.

  1. Life and death in Park Falls

    By David Wahlberg;

  2. Who's watching the farm?

    By Ron Seely;

  3. Crusader with a checkbook: Anne Nicol Gaylor helps women fund abortions

    By Doug Erickson;

  4. Loophole lets landowners get tax advantage while keeping public away

    By Jason Stein;

  5. Secret Places: Under, inside, outside the dome

    By Barry Adams;

  6. A known killer in cities, heroin is spreading to Wisconsin's rural areas

    By Gena Kittner;

  7. City workers' extra earnings cost $15 million in 2009

    By Dean Mosiman and Nick Heynen;

  8. Embattled, beloved Leckrone built band into UW institution

    By Deborah Ziff;

  9. Lana about Svetlana: Stalin's daughter on her life in Wisconsin

    By Doug Moe;

Definition

Enterprise reporting describes published news reports that are not based on press releases or news conferences. Enterprise reporting is all about stories a reporter or an editor dig up on his or her own, often what some people might call "scoops." Enterprise reporting may also focus on events, but it usually goes beyond merely covering these events when reporters explore the forces shaping the events.

Through enterprise reporting a news organization demonstrates its understanding of the key issues and interests of its community and it demonstrates the extent of the skill of its staff to report on these matters.