Articles by Caleb Rose

North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains start slow. Small hills in the countryside ripple over each other and slowly turn into raw, jutting stone mountain faces gashed by meandering rivers that weave their way through awe-striking valleys. Tucked away amongst the miles of vast mountains, sits the city of Asheville and its outlying countryside towns. Within the […]

Business and community leaders in Pacific Palisades and Malibu have a deep love for their small towns. It’s inspired them to lead the charge for recovery after the Palisades Fire. This story is part of a semester-long investigative reporting project into the 2025 California wildfires. It was created by an advanced reporting class in the […]

Tourism never stops in the City of Angels. Awe-struck travelers pass by Santa Monica Pier, mouths hanging open at the flashing fluorescent lights in the night sky as waves crash by below.  The pier sits off of California’s Pacific Coast Highway, a route of legend, pinned between the rolling waves of the Pacific and the […]

Chandra Jennings and Kraig Jenkins had been dating for just over two years. The couple was attending a party together, drinking, smoking and having fun. A short argument later and Jennings asked to go to a bar, so Jenkins took her. Before he even stopped, Jennings hopped out of the car and slammed the door. […]

The Milwaukee man was 25 years old when he disappeared. He left behind a 4-month-old son. He was wearing a black jogging suit with gray patches and white Adidas sneakers when he left the house with no word to his family. With the support of community activist and radio host Tory Lowe, his family made […]

The sun blazed down on a hot August morning in Milwaukee. Temperatures reached their highest of 1975 just the day after, made to feel even hotter just miles away from Milwaukee’s industrial corridor on the city’s west side. Under the covered porch of a white two-story duplex, sat Dontray Hunter, just 23 days from his […]

About 32,711 people have gone missing in the City of Milwaukee in the last 10 years, according to the Milwaukee Police Department. At any given time, about 500 people are actively missing in Milwaukee. Many are people of color, yet very few make the news. In 2024 through Oct. 15, 2,466 people were reported missing […]

Young people’s mental health struggles are on the rise along with social media use. In this Media Milwaukee podcast episode, Caleb Rose explores connections between the two, looking at the joy and harm inside that ever-present phone.

Eden loves to write, but it’s his connection to water and writing at the beach that helps him truly understand himself.

For UWM student Kamryn Rabon, ‘As,’ by Stevie Wonder, reminds her of connections to her partner, her social work major, and her mother.

While Lance Wright doesn’t play on a team, he uses basketball to stay in shape, improve himself, and connect to his community.

In this short documentary, Caleb Rose presents Breadsmith Bakery. Founded in Milwaukee, the bakery was created in 1993. The local-started business prides itself on the made-from-scratch quality bakery items that it sells. They keep a lineup of daily breads and pastries and feature different daily specialties each week. The business that started on Milwaukee’s Downer […]