Changes

The Center Square website launched in mid-May 2019 purporting to be “a non-profit, non-partisan, non-political, no-nonsense organization.” Watchdog.org , Franklin's news website began redirecting to "thecentersquare.com" in May of 2019. [[Chris Krug ]] was announced as the publisher of the site and president of the Franklin News Network, which according to a Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) investigation is a "new mask" in an "effort to replace local journalism with right-wing reporting."<ref name=rebrand/> Articles published in the first few weeks since The Center Square name change "give no indication that it will operate any differently from its previous iterations." A CMD survey of recent stories included "a write up of a fellow SPN group’s report critiquing “unfunded retirement obligations,” a summary of FreedomWorks’ — a group described as one of the “big-money funders and free-market advocacy organizations” — recent actions, and transcription of Wisconsin Republican talking points."<ref name=rebrand/>