Article: Community links high in Monroe, Wisconsin. (The Monroe Evening Times) (Ethics)

As news editor for The Monroe Evening Times in southern Wisconsin, Mary Jane Bestor reads a lot of press releases. As a member of the Monroe Theater Guild, she writes them.

Who receives the releases Bestor writes? "Us," she said. "That's pretty much it."

The Evening Times is Monroe's only paper. Its coverage focuses on local sports and schools and city and county government. Although Monroe's population is just 10,300, according to the Chamber of Commerce, the paper is widely read throughout rural Green County and neighboring northern Illinois and fists its circulation as 72,000.

The paper has no formal ethics code limiting involvement of its ...

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