Karyn Saemann, editor of The Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin) since May 2022, will retain that role and has additionally assumed a dual role as regional editor for APG Southern Wisconsin. Saemann will continue to primarily work out of The Gazette office in downtown Janesville but will have a heightened presence in the other communities that have APG Southern Wisconsin publications.
As regional editor, Saemann will direct editorial operations for APG Southern Wisconsin’s six daily publications that include The Gazette, The Beloit Daily News, The Daily Jefferson County Union, Watertown Daily Times, Antigo Daily Journal and Marinette EagleHerald, as well as its nine weekly print and digital publications that are part of Hometown News Group. Hometown News Group publications include the Sun Prairie Star, Waunakee Tribune, DeForest Times-Tribune, Lodi Enterprise & Poynette Press, Herald-Independent & McFarland Thistle, Cambridge News &Deerfield Independent, Lake Mills Leader, Milton Courier and Waterloo-Marshall Courier.
Other editors who assumed new leadership roles with APG-Southern Wisconsin include News Editor Madeline Westberg, who has worked as a reporter and editor for Hometown News Group since 2018; News Editor Brian O’Connor, editor of the Watertown Daily Times since 2022; and Tim Seeman, who has worked for The Gazette in a variety of capacities since 2013, most recently as news editor, who will now be regional sports editor.
