4 Madison Media Companions newspapers will now have an workplace within the Dells space.
Wisconsin Dells Occasions and Juneau County Star-Occasions, the 2 weekly publications, in addition to the each day Baraboo Information Republic and each day Portage Each day Register, now have a small workplace in a newly leased house in On the Workplace, a facility holding workplaces for various companies, on Wisconsin Dells Parkway in Lake Delton.
The workplace shouldn’t be open to the general public; no editorial or promoting employees will keep a constant presence there. The workplace is meant for use as a centrally situated working house for workers solely.
Operations for all 4 publications — following the closure of particular person workplaces — have been centralized on the former Baraboo Information Republic workplace on Matt’s Ferry Street in Baraboo, previous to the closure of the ability on Nov. 15. The previous workplace was inbuilt 2003 and has since been offered.
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Reporters and editors of the publications will proceed to primarily work remotely. Anybody with story proposals or different concepts to undergo Madison Media Companions publications ought to nonetheless talk them by way of electronic mail.
Every newspaper had a person workplace previous to the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous Portage Each day Register workplace was situated on LaDawn Drive in Portage previous to its closure on Dec. 12, 2019. Juneau County Star-Occasions additionally had an workplace location on State Road in Mauston, which closed on March 19, 2020.
The Each day Register workplace at 1640 LaDawn Drive will shut Thursday.
The Star-Occasions workplace’s closure was initially meant to be short-term, however later grew to become everlasting and the ability was finally offered.
Madison Media Companions, a subsidiary of Lee Enterprises that the publications belong to, started its lease of the brand new Wisconsin Dells Parkway workplace in November. That is the second workplace to be situated within the Dells space. The primary one, which has since closed, was strictly the headquarters of the Dells Occasions.
Three former publications — the Reedsburg Occasions-Press, Sauk Prairie Eagle, and the Columbus Journal — additionally had their very own workplaces in Reedsburg, Sauk Metropolis, and Columbus, respectively. The three papers ceased print operations in October of 2019.