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Robert Chappell

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Covers:  Race, racial equity, immigration, Madison, Wisconsin
Executive editor @madison_365 (madison365.org). Host of @TalkinFlock, the #FullMingo podcast. Journalism, soccer, amusing parental anecdotes. He/him.

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Robert Chappell is a cofounder, associate publisher and editorial director of Madison365, the nation's first nonprofit news outlet focused on communities of color. He began his professional journalism career at the age of 15, covering village government for the Mount Horeb Mail in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. He worked as editor of the Fennimore Times and associate editor of Madison Magazine. He later served Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton as communications director and worked in strategic com…

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Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white

Madison Indigenous arts leader, activist revealed as white

Early in 2020, an Indigenous artist urged the owners of a new music venue in town to change its name. It was …

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Beyond the Great Resignation: how the pandemic changed the way we work -- and how we feel about i...

Beyond the Great Resignation: how the pandemic changed the way we work -- and how we feel about i...

Sorrina Beecher had been entrepreneurial before. After working for a year at a daily newspaper in North Carol…

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"A cultural shift." Nonprofits see lasting changes -- some subtle, some seismic -- coming out of ...

"A cultural shift." Nonprofits see lasting changes -- some subtle, some seismic -- coming out of ...

On a chilly day last week, bundled up against the cold, Jorden Metoyer handed bags of N95 masks through the w…

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Jimmy Banks Stadium? Grassroots effort looks to rename Custer after Milwaukee soccer legend

Jimmy Banks Stadium? Grassroots effort looks to rename Custer after Milwaukee soccer legend

On a chilly spring day in the early 1970s, a fourth grader sprinted out of Byron Kilbourn Public School at re…

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Deputies wait 15 hours to take man with broken hip to hospital after altercation with guards

Deputies wait 15 hours to take man with broken hip to hospital after altercation with guards

Video evidence and medical records indicate that a Dane County Jail inmate's hip was fractured and dislocated…

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Black Security Guard Fired from West High for Using Racial Slur -- He Says in his Own Defense

Black Security Guard Fired from West High for Using Racial Slur -- He Says in his Own Defense

A Black security guard says he has been terminated from Madison West High School because he used a racial slu…

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“Just too good!” Unstoppable sophomore striker Mya Schroeder gets second PotW nod

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By Robert Chappell Verified
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Hayden Zehren photo by Nate Beier/GX3 Media. Ozaukee/Random Lake sophomore striker Mya Schroeder is Xtra Time Talent’s (XTT) Player of the Week for the sectional round of the Wisconsin girls’ high school season, scoring all eight (!!) goals in a 6-0 win over Living Word Lutheran in the sectional semifinal and a 2-1 win over Oostburg in the final to power ORL to a second consecutive berth in the state tournament.
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608 Soccer: Party of Five (Goals) with Jason Joyce

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By Robert Chappell Verified
| Madison365
Listen: Watch: Today on the show, Rob and Ethan talk through — nay, revel in — all FIVE goals in Forward Madison’s 5-1 home win over AC Boise. We wonder aloud why Pride Night wasn’t more apparent, and mention a couple big personnel moves within the league.
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Community mourns, remembers Michael Johnson

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BGCDC CEO Michael Johnson addresses supporters at the McKenzie Workforce Development Center grand opening in 2023. Photo by Omar Waheed. In 2010, three weeks after he arrived in Madison to take the helm at the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, he had lunch with Monica Howard, an old friend from his time in Chicago who’d lived in Madison for a while.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

First stringer gig was covering Village Board for the Mt. Horeb Mail, a small-town weekly, at the age of 15, for $25 a story.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes of course! I wrote several fiction stories on a typewriter. My first professional news stories came out of a dot matrix printer, though.

How is social media changing news?

Disaggregation. News has become ambient. Used to be the newspaper had to sell; now each story has to perform and be measured and monetized.
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