UW-Milwaukee Brings Home 17 Prestigious SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards

In the regional Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, UWM students won eight first-place honors and 17 awards total, among the best in the upper Midwest. The contest honors top collegiate journalists in four states: Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Winners in their categories go on to the national SPJ competition. […]

UWM Journalism Students Win 32 Milwaukee Press Club Awards

UW-Milwaukee student journalists won 32 Milwaukee Press Club awards for 2020 work, more than any other university, the club announced March 12. The collegiate winners in the prestigious statewide competition included print/online, video and audio stories for Media Milwaukee, an online news site produced in Department of Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies classes. Some of […]

UW-Milwaukee Students Win Three National Journalism Awards

Two in-depth journalism projects and an audio story produced by students in the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies won top honors in the National Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards, SPJ announced. The contest is among the most competitive in the country; UWM students joined winners from Northwestern, Harvard, Yale, University […]

UW-Milwaukee Student Journalists Take Top Wisconsin Newspaper Association Honors

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists with Media Milwaukee took home 12 awards in a statewide excellence in journalism contest, including first-place honors for public affairs reporting, freedom of information, breaking news reporting, feature writing, feature photography, and multimedia reporting. Media Milwaukee student journalists swept the multimedia category in the contest with two out-of-state immersion projects […]

How We’re Living Now

Media Milwaukee reporters interviewed food service workers, nurses, teachers, students and health care aides to learn how Wisconsinites are coping with Covid-19. “To be honest with you, I’m worried about everybody.” Buffalo Wild Wings shift manager Jasmine Dickerson tells Everett Eaton about living with fear — and a smaller paycheck. “It sure isn’t the same […]

Soundscapes: Listening in a Pandemic

After the UW-Milwaukee campus shut down, Audio Storytelling students had to figure out new ways to record and edit from home. As a test run, they wandered their cities, towns and neighborhoods, listening more closely than usual. Max Mitchelson takes a walk through Shorewood to Lake Michigan. Ozaukee County’s largest grassland is the Schwengel Waterfowl […]

UW-Milwaukee Honored for Excellence in Student Journalism

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists won dozens of top honors in competitive regional contests for multimedia news and feature stories published in 2019. With journalism awards ceremonies and conferences cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, winners are being announced online. Society of Professional Journalists In the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition, UWM […]