Articles by Media Milwaukee staff

Read the Media Milwaukee investigative report into Milwaukee’s gun court here. Meet our investigative team (click on their names to obtain more information, including how to contact our journalists): Pakou Lee: I am a multimedia journalist at UW-Milwaukee. My interest in journalism derived from watching television. Television was my window view to the world when I […]

More than 3,500 volunteers fanned out over miles of the Milwaukee River basin for the 21st Annual Spring River Cleanup. The volunteers worked to remove tons of trash from the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic River watersheds. Armed with audio recorders, journalism students chronicled the cleanup. Brandon Anderegg covered Estabrook Park: Sabrina Johnkins caught up with high school […]

An audio story about students rallying for a higher minimum wage. A long-form feature story on a local skateboarding legend. A class project on Milwaukee-area Holocaust survivors, and a two-student multimedia video and print package on one of them. A student’s contextual piece on campus crime numbers. These are the five diverse stories by UW-Milwaukee […]

Media Milwaukee student journalists at UW-Milwaukee have won 9 Milwaukee Press Club awards in multiple categories, including an award for best college news site. That means Media Milwaukee student journalists have won 30 awards in three different prestigious contests since last fall alone. The MPC Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism Competition received hundreds of […]

Media Milwaukee student journalists won 11 SPJ awards in the Society of Professional Journalists regional Mark of Excellence contest, SPJ announced today. The Media Milwaukee news site is a finalist for best online publication. Students in JAMS 320 Integrated Reporting were honored with SPJ awards for their Faces Not Forgotten series on Wisconsin veterans; JAMS […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists writing for Media Milwaukee have won 10 Wisconsin College Media Association Better Newspaper Contest awards, including four first place honors. They swept the college media investigative reporting category for work created in journalism classes. The student journalists, who write for the news site produced by the  Journalism, Advertising, and Media […]

By Sierra Wolff Jada Pinkett-Smith. Will Smith. Spike Lee. Mark Ruffalo. These are just a few names on an increasing list of celebrities boycotting this year’s Academy Awards. For the second straight year, the Academy has no nominations for people of color in the big categories. The Academy itself has a historic background lacking in […]

JAMS 204 students know that brevity is powerful.

UW-Milwaukee journalism students have won three first-place regional Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, SPJ announced Monday. The first-place award winners – for best online college news reporting, television news reporting, and television broadcast – now advance to the national SPJ competition. The Mark of Excellence awards “honor the best of collegiate […]

Media Milwaukee won a 2014 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Digital-Only Student Publication and UWM student journalists snagged ten additional awards in the regional SPJ competition, which includes universities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. The students’ work will be recognized in April at the SPJ Region 6 […]

Lecturer Tess Gallun’s documentary, Out of Respect: A Story of Five, premiered to a sold-out audience in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lubar Auditorium in February. The film traces the rejection, hardship, spirit and resilience in the lives of five LGBT young people aging out of Milwaukee’s foster care system. Watch the trailer and listen to […]