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The Recombobulation Area is a 19-time Milwaukee Press Club award-winning opinion column and online publication founded by longtime Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. The Recombobulation Area is now part of Civic Media.
Greetings, recombobulators!
A few weeks ago, I shared with you the news that at Civic Media, we’re launching a brand new Substack newsletter called
. Today, we’re giving all of you a free trial to subscribe!This is a free newsletter, so just to be clear, the trial doesn’t unlock that’s not already available with a normal subscription. But this is how you’re going to be able to access a whole lot of what I’ve been working on lately with our team at Civic Media.
I am writing at Civic Media Today on most weekdays, so if you follow me here at The Recombobulation Area, I hope you’ll follow my work there, too.
Here’s today’s edition, if you want to take a look.
And if you need a refresher on what exactly this whole Civic Media Today business even is in the first place, I’ll remind you here that it is a free newsletter that features…
A daily news update (often from me, as it was in yesterday’s edition)
The latest headlines from Civic Media reporters all across the state
A Wisconsin news roundup from News Director
Recaps, previews, podcasts, livestreams and more from Civic Media’s daily news/talk shows
Even more from our Civic Media’s many original podcasts and weekly
Bonus clips from our YouTube channel and Instagram page
And you’ll find all of this packaged into one convenient email sent to your inbox every weekday, around your lunch hour. It’ll feature the latest from morning shows like “Mornings with Pat Kreitlow” and “Matenaer On Air,” and a preview of afternoon shows like “The Todd Allbaugh Show” and “The Maggie Daun Show.”
So please enjoy your new subscription to this wonderful new newsletter that we’re all pretty proud of. And hey, if you choose to opt out of the free trial, we get it, not everybody wants more newsletters (even if they’re as great as this one!), so feel free to unsubscribe, we promise we won’t be too offended.
But please enjoy this newsletter, and we hope this leads you to discover the many great things we’re producing every day across the Civic Media extended universe.
Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. In 2024, he became the Political Editor of Civic Media. He’s written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 23 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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