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