Articles by Media Milwaukee staff

This is one of the first generations of college students for whom Sept. 11, 2001 is simply history and not a living memory. If you are an 18-year-old freshman, for example, you were either a newborn or not yet born when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings in New York. A team […]

Award-winning special projects created by Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists won five national Society of Professional Journalists awards for reporting, writing, audio storytelling and photography published in 2018, SPJ announced today. Students’ coverage of the impact of Somali immigration in Barron, Wisconsin was named the best online feature reporting in the country. Talis Shelbourne, Elizabeth Sloan, Madison Sepanik, Darien Yeager, […]

Media Milwaukee’s student journalists are heading to nationals in nine categories in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence competition after their work won first-place awards in the prestigious four-state regional competition. That brings the 2018 award tally for Media Milwaukee to 59 honors in a variety of major contests. Stories that move on […]

Media Milwaukee student journalists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee earned 39 awards in four major journalism competitions including the Milwaukee Press Club, Wisconsin College Media Association and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. The students won in writing, audio, video and online categories. The student journalists in a variety of classes snagged 23 Milwaukee Press Club awards, […]

The public controversy tends to focus on the border and migrant caravan or on Washington D.C. and Donald Trump’s desired wall and the partial government shutdown. However, a team of 16 Media Milwaukee student journalists set out on a three-month investigative quest to better understand the immigration question in one major Midwestern community – Milwaukee, […]

In StoryCorps style, journalism students recorded intimate interviews over Thanksgiving weekend. Cynthia Maduka talks with close friend Jeffrey Rivera-Prado about the challenges of coming to the United States from Colombia. Jodie Filenius talks with her dad, Mark, about the differences between living in a more populated area like Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin versus a rural area like Prentice, […]

With the midterm election just days away, UW-Milwaukee student journalists covered a range of voters, nonvoters and issues shaping the Wisconsin vote.