In his humorous column on the boss' retirement, Janz wrote that "the best description of Wills then was nondescript. Fascinated by weather, loved the outdoors The Sentinel and Journal merged into the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 1995. Wills ran the Sentinel until 1991, when he was promoted to executive vice president of Journal Sentinel Inc. Wills was also named a Knight of the Golden Quill by the Milwaukee Press Club, the group's highest honor for journalists. He also served as president of the Milwaukee SPJ Chapter, which gave him its Newsman of the Year Award in 1973. During his tenure, SPJ started Project Watchdog, a First Amendment public education program, which Wills promoted around the country.
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He was national president of the Society of Professional Journalists from 1986 to 1987. It follows that the guarantee of freedom of information for the media really is a guarantee for the rights of people." Wills said in his capacity as council president. "The role of the media is that of watchdog of government for the public. Wills was a founder of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and served as its first president from 1979 to 1986. He said when the vandalized statue was put in storage in 1973, he missed his daily blessing. when he got off the train from Waukesha County. At the dedication ceremony, Wills remembered seeing the earlier statue every day at its former location at N. As one of its celebratory events that year, the newspaper donated a bronze statue of explorer Pere Marquette in the downtown Milwaukee park that bears his name, replacing a vandalized statue. The Sentinel celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1987 during his reign. Wills was named editor of the Sentinel in 1975. Ultimately, a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling required redistricting based on the principle of one man, one vote. Sonneborn filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of county board representation in 70 of Wisconsin's 72 counties those counties were allotting spots to each town, village and city ward rather than basing them on population. As city editor, Wills and managing editor Harry L. One of his proudest accomplishments affected local government in Wisconsin. Wills' intensity and passion for accuracy served his belief that journalism played an important role in democracy. And he trusted and gave you opportunities," she said. He successfully wore down corporate reluctance to make Laurie Van Dyke the Sentinel's first female assistant city editor, Bender said. Wills hired women as news reporters, at a time when that was less common, and promoted them to leadership positions, when that was even less common. If he praised your work, you felt like you had won the Pulitzer Prize." If he got on your case or criticized your output, you deserved it. "He was very demanding, but in a constructive way," said Sentinel colleague Keith Spore, who served as managing editor under Wills and then succeeded him as editor when Wills was promoted into corporate management.
"Years ago, after he'd edited a story I had written, he scrawled a short note to me using words that took up an entire page and looked as if they had been pumped up with steroids: 'You use a lot a lot.' " "He was as instructive as he was terse," Janz wrote. Janz quoted colleague Marta Bender's assessment of their boss: "He was the same whether you were chairman of the board or Charlie the carpenter."
"He was blunt and he was loud and he was the same with everyone," Sentinel columnist Bill Janz wrote when Wills retired in 1993. The Journal dispatched Wills and several other veterans to reinvigorate the morning newspaper Wills was named city editor, the leader of daily news coverage. Wills was an assistant city editor at The Journal in 1962 when it bought the Sentinel from the Hearst Corp., which was contemplating closing the paper after a strike.
He worked at the Duluth (Minn.) Herald and News-Tribune before joining The Milwaukee Journal as a reporter in 1951, covering many assignments including city hall, where he appreciated the relative openness of Mayor Frank Zeidler, who allowed Wills and competing Milwaukee Sentinel reporter Trueman Farris to go through his mail with him. Navy, serving as an aviation electrician's mate in Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 26 at East Coast bases and at the Naval Aircraft Experimental Station in Philadelphia. After his discharge, Wills earned bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Wills was born in Colfax, Ill. In 1944, he enlisted in the U.S. He leaves an indelible mark on newspapering." Blunt, loud, and passionate about freedom of information "In each role, he has embodied all that is good about journalism. "He has been a colleague, a competitor and a superior," Milwaukee Journal deputy managing editor Howard Fibich told Sandin in 1993.
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