Bill Lueders, former editor and now editor-at-large of The Progressive, is a writer in Madison, Wisconsin. He is author of An Enemy of the State, the biography of the late editor of The Progressive, Erwin Knoll. Lueders was news editor at Isthmus, Madison’s alternative weekly, for twenty-five years, and won dozens of state and national awards. In 2011 he moved to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, where he became one of Wisconsin’s leading investigative reporters. He joined the staff of The Progressive in 2015 and was named editor in September 2018. In September 2021 he was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Coalition’s State Open Government Hall of Fame.