Faced with the devastating twin threats of digital and China, can a critical Wisconsin industry survive?
Published December 9, 2012
After it shut down in 2006, logger Butch Johnson bought the paper mill in Park Falls and reopened it as Flambeau River Papers, saving the jobs of about 300 employees. Video by Mike De Sisti
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Collaboration between Pulitzer Center, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yields Loew Award finalists--twice over--with reporting on U.S.-China competition in paper industry.
Pulitzer Center grantee John Schmid will discuss his reporting project "China and Wisconsin: Paper Cuts" at Davidson College April 15 and 16.
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Mike De Sisti has been the multimedia picture editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for four years. He oversees multimedia production and training, shoots general still assignments and...
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Since 2003, John Schmid has covered economic change and globalization for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In 2003, Schmid traveled to China for “Made in China,” a series that won the 2004...
