"[2] In 2013, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker vetoed a provision of the state's biennial budget that would have prohibited collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Center.
[3][4] Under the terms of the proposed provision, the Center would have faced eviction from the University of Wisconsin's campus, where it has its offices.
[5][6] Journalist Bill Lueders worked at the center for four years, writing about the intersection of money and politics, before becoming associate editor of The Progressive in 2015.
[7][non-primary source needed] In 2024, Wisconsin Watch merged with Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.
[9] The Center also is a signatory to the International Fact Checking Network and its code of principles,[10] a fact-checking consortium.