Jon Henkes , then a lobbyist for the UW system, was one of the founders of WisconsinEye . The group began in 2007 after a couple years of work by Henkes and others to get it off the ground. The goal was to make state government more transparent, offering gavel-to-gavel coverage of the state Legislature and it has been a great success.

In the last two-and-a-half years WisconsinEye covered 2,648 state Capitol and public policy events, produced 218 studio programs and 401 campaign-related events while reaching over 2.4 million website page views and more than 320,000 unique visitors, the group notes.

It has a massive archive of coverage “with more than 18,000 hours of freely available programming and coverage,” and “all coverage is delivered without editing or partisan spin.”

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