Thursday, February 1

• Panel Discussion 2:30 p.m

"Is Winning Everything? "

Don Walker

Don Walker is the sports business writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has 31 years of journalism experience, both as an

editor and reporter.

A native of Detroit, Mich., Walker received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Marquette University and a master’s degree in urban affairs from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Before joining the Milwaukee Journal, Walker was a reporter at News-Graphic Inc., in Cedarburg, Wis., and a reporter and assistant regional editor for the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram.

Walker joined the Journal in 1978 as a reporter and copy editor. He served in a variety of editing positions, including assistant metropolitan editor, national and foreign editor, assignment editor and metropolitan editor.

In 1995, the Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel merged, and Walker became the new paper’s national and foreign editor. Two years later, he became the newspaper’s special projects editor. In 1999, he returned to reporting, concentrating on the business of sports.

 

Walker has won a variety of local and state newspaper awards, and he has had the rare opportunity of covering both a national political convention (1996) and an Olympics (Athens in 2004).