Journalists Mingle at Iconic Newsroom Pub

INTRODUCTION:

Media professionals from across Milwaukee came together to network or simply shoot the sh*t over food and drinks at the Newsroom pub. Ian Bergersen reports.

REPORTER PACKAGE:

(Ian Bergersen narration): Media professionals and amateurs packed into the Newsroom Pub to mingle over food and drinks at the Milwaukee Press Club’s Shoot the Sh*t event. WTMJ radio host Gene Mueller is the president of the Milwaukee Press club. 

(Gene Mueller): We get together and talk about what’s good about our business, what’s bad about our business, and uh…have fun! And ya know if things happen professionally for the people who take part, great! 

(Ian narration): The Newsroom Pub is the exclusive venue for Milwaukee Press club events. Signature plaques from famouse sports figures like Babe Ruth to past U.S presidents like Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt plaster the walls of the pub. Above the bar sits the Press Club’s mascot, Anubis the petrified cat. 

(Gene Mueller): That’s a true dead fossilized cat up there. You can’t make that up. 

(Ian narration): Many people came excited to network with media pros, including Alex Moehn who started a podcast about the running community in Milwaukee called Cream City Pacers 

(Alex Moehn): I thought it would be a good idea to come here and kind of network and see what would be a good way to get my show out in public. Who would pick up on it, who I could go to, just kind of mingle. 

(Ian narration): Matt Friedel is a senior lecturer in the school of information studies at UW-Milwaukee. He says that Shoot the Sh*t gives him the opportunity to talk with people working in the local media about the university. 

(Matt Friedel): In respect to the university we have a lot of fantastic new initiatives coming down the pipes so it’s an opportunity and low-key environment to connect with reporters and TV people and just get our story out about all the cool stuff that UWM is doing. 

(Ian narration): Besides Shoot the Sh*t, the Milwaukee Press Club hosts other events at the Newsroom pub such as award dinners and press conferences. For Media Milwaukee, I’m Ian Bergersen.