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Mayor David Bogdala is pleased to announce that Daniel Gaitan, a former local news reporter, has joined the city as a media specialist. Daniel has an extensive background in multimedia reporting and deep local ties to the community. Daniel has years of experience in print, digital and social media platforms.
Gaitan, an award-winning reporter, had been a dedicated journalist at the Kenosha News for nearly a decade. Daniel has covered a wide range of topics and events including community festivals, local politics, notable court cases, major infrastructure improvements, public education and breaking news.
Gaitan was raised in Kenosha. Daniel has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree from DePaul University’s College of Communication. “I’m thrilled and so excited to take on this new role,” Gaitan said.
“I’m ready to use my skills and experiences to help the City of Kenosha provide accurate and
up to date communications.”
In addition to being a news reporter, Gaitan also served for several years as the Kenosha County Circuit Court Media Coordinator. He was tasked with accepting media requests from other news organizations such as KCE, the regional and national news. He would be the liaison between the media and the court system. It didn’t come with extra pay and was something that kept him very busy.
“Gaitan was a wonderful journalist and an all-around good person. In my opinion, he was the last good reporter for the Kenosha News,” said KCE Editor Kevin Mathewson. “Not only was he an excellent reporter, but he did a tremendous job as the Kenosha County Media coordinator. The Kenosha News’ loss is the City of Kenosha’s gain.”
Gatain’s last day with the Kenosha News was yesterday, October 22, 2024. Today Gaitan started his new career with the public sector. Gaitan was universally known as a fair and honest journalist, holding himself to the highest journalistic integrity.
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If he was the last guy out of the kn, I hope you remembered to turn off the lights 😝
Congratulations on getting off the sinking ship.
Congrats to Dan for getting off the Titanic.
Lee Enterprises has decimated this newspaper.
It was decimated long before that, when they decided that the Kenosha News should just be a larger version of the Labor Paper, and that at least half of Kenosha belonged in a basket of deplorables, long before Hillary muttered that expression.
Dan was always a very fair reporter, and always nice whenever I ran into him around town. Good for him.
He is being rewarded for never writing a story that was critical of the city of Kenosha government. Kenosha takes care of those who keep the secrets.
exactly! I am not in the Gaiten camp, he has written very divisive pieces in the past against Christians and I feel that he is a very dishonorable person
He’s a pretty solid Christian. Can you give mean example? I must have missed it.
Welcome Aboard sir , Hope you do a great job .
I like this guy
The quality of print media especially the Kenosha News and Racine Journal Times has been in decline for years and at this point is pretty dismal. Would be interesting to see how many jobs have been eliminated.
Don’t know Mr. Gaitan but likely leaving for what is probably a lifetime job is a wise move.
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/lee-enterprises-furloughs
“New Mayor, New Changes To Kenosha’s Social Media Policy – No Commenting Allowed”
How hard can it be to craft the standard response used by those most of Kenosha’s leaders?…….”No Comment”.
https://kenoshacountyeye.com/2024/06/17/new-mayor-new-changes-to-social-media-policy-no-commenting-allowed/
I’m happy he’s able to move on and have a good future ahead
of him, even though we’ve never met.
It makes me wonder what ever happened to some of
the slugs that worked there.
They sure had plenty of them.
Gaitan is a nice fellow, but an amateur at best as a journalist. For example, he never covered the original Women and Children’s Horizon fiasco or the subsequent disaster after the director was finally fired. There’s a reason that Kevin Mathewson has a following, and it’s not just because we can read it for free. Every one of KCE’s articles are that of a quality journalist covering local issues in depth. When has the Kenosha News beaten KCE to a good story? There are plenty of young journalists coming out of the bowels of biased journalism schools, including UW Madison, who will snap up Gaitan’s job for even less money than Gaitan was likely making, and they will be as mediocre in depth and coverage as Gaitan. Gaitan may not be replaced. Past Gaitan, the remaining two lady reporters, Craig and Flores, will continue their mediocrity of reporting. Kenosha News relies on the lying, biased state, national and international clips from Associated Press, and a sports section that covers the locals very well, though all game results are a day late. The ads are repetitive, and the paper goes to print at 3PM. The number of print subscribers is rapidly dwindling, including me after 25 years. The print edition will be gone in a year. There are many reasons that the old Kenosha News building is now Herzing U. I predict more layoffs when the Racine Times and Kenosha News merge.
If you want a good laugh…..this from the Kenosha News “about us” page:
“Our mission is to weave together the community fabric, increase understanding about the issues we face and watch out for the public’s best interests.”
Most of us know the Kenosha News along with the Racine Journal Times could care less about the public interest…..that is why we follow the reporting on KenoshaCountyEye.
You sounded like you knew what you were talking about up until that last sentence. Kenosha News and Racine Journal Times have been one for quite a few years now.
The old Kenosha News building was owned by the Brown family. They sold it, as they no longer printed on site and had no use for a building that size.
I was unaware the two had merged. It seems there’s little news or advertising about Racine. Who cares? The paper has turned to crap.
Good for him.
However is this really a full time job? Seems like a good spot for a college intern.
To quote Ron Swanson:
I have a joke for you…
The government in this town is excellent and uses your tax dollars efficiently.