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In 2016, Americans streamed 431 billion songs through on demand platforms like Spotify and Tidal. Truly, we live in the age of physical music’s demise. However, there have been bright moments for some of music’s most industrious startups. Spotify had 50 million subscribers in March 2017, Tidal saw unprecedented growth when it exclusively released Kanye […]

With the Milwaukee Brewers fully committed to rebuilding their organization through drafting and trading players, there has been a lot of speculation that General Manager David Stearns will look to move veteran outfielder and 2011 MVP Ryan Braun. Following 2016, a year that saw the organization trade away one of its biggest stars in catcher […]

It’s Friday night. You frantically poll your girlfriends on different outfit choices; something cute…but nothing that is trying too hard. You skip your Holy Grail dry shampoo and decide to put in the extra effort to actually wash your hair. You swallow down those nervous butterflies as you answer your door. It is date night! […]

By Ryaen Johnson There is always a winner and a loser in every game, meet, or competition event. Every year at the end of the regular season, the NBA holds the ultimate tournament to crown a team the best in the NBA. After the playoffs and NBA Finals comes the next big occasion, the NBA […]

Paul Ryan defends Trump at the same time James Comey was testifying for the first time in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Ryan’s statement is hurting Donald Trump unintentionally rather than helping him as he thought he was. A country run by a President learning on the job is not what America is comfortable […]

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos announced back in December of 2013 that the company was testing out drones to deliver packages. It seemed like a strange, dystopian concept that wouldn’t actually ever take off. However, in March of this year the drones were tested for the first time in the United States. In California during Amazon’s […]

No, they don’t make people mass murderers – video games are actually turning millennials into navigational and spatial masterminds. It is the industry of today. Almost everybody has played video games, and they influence players in different ways. Does playing violent video games increase one’s chance of becoming violent in real life?  Scholars have been […]

On July 4, 2016, NBA superstar Kevin Durant signed with the Golden State Warriors, sending shockwaves through the league. The Warriors had just completed a historic, record-breaking 73-win season, only to lose in the Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a dramatic seven game series. What would a Warriors team that replaced its worst starter, […]

The hustle and bustle of the UW – Milwaukee Student Union did nothing to distract Miela Fetaw from her passionate recounting of the experiences she has faced as an African-American woman, journalist and student at UWM. Fetaw, a senior double majoring in Journalism and Global Studies, has been working toward her degree since 2014. She […]

Four Media Milwaukee journalists have won a first place national Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence reporting award for their extensive coverage of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Athletic Department controversies. The work of student journalists Tisia Muzinga, Paul Willems, Miela Fetaw, and Kristopher Schimmel was deemed the best online sports journalism in the country […]

UW-Milwaukee is among the bottom-performing universities for black students, according to a new study from The Education Trust, a non-profit advocacy organization. Only 21 percent of black students graduate from UWM in six years, the study found. Media Milwaukee reporters talked with students and advisors to find out why. Nia Wilson heard from students and advisors […]

Sixteen UWM Journalism students take a trip to Flint, Michigan to find out how the water is still affecting the people living there, nearly three years after a water crisis was first discovered.