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  Some people are actually there to buy cars. Typically, when someone thinks of an auto show, they think of seeing all the new models of from their favorite manufacturers. However, there are actually a lot of cars for sale. They might not be a high-end sport car, but if you’re in the market for […]

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 […]

The current Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera, visited UWM Thursday night for a poetry reading and to preach the idea of unity throughout all races and religions. He is the first Latino Poet Laureate of the United States. His visit was a part of the Bordeaux Reading Series. The 67-year-old poet […]

When it comes to sports, Wisconsin is all aboard with the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers recently threw an amazing throw that earned the Packers the game. This throw not only made fans go crazy, it inspired professors as well, more specifically Paul Lyman, a Physics Professor at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The newly opened […]

If you catch Andrew Zimmerman any given Sunday between September and February, you know what kind of Packer fan he is. Not just because he’s sitting in the same seats at Lambeau Field his family has had since the 1960s. And it’s not because he’s missed only one game in well over a decade, regardless […]

For the past eight years, Milwaukee Zine Fest has brought together like-minded artists, authors, and poets to display, sell, and trade their works. With a safer space policy encouraging attendees to treat each other with respect and to be assertive when oppressive or aggressive situations occur, it’s an event for participants of all ethnic, gender, […]

See what the day was like around campus, when UW-Milwaukee hosted the Democratic Debate. Matt Campbell explains through the Media Milwaukee Snapchat Story that day.

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 […]

As part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s annual Geek Week and Distinguished Lecture Series, LeVar Burton spoke to a diverse crowd of roughly 700 people Wednesday evening to show, through examples of his own work, that the power of storytelling can be used as a powerful teaching tool. Burton is known for a varied acting […]

Over 800 students packed the Wisconsin Room in the Union to see actor and author LeVar Burton, famous host of Reading Rainbow, give a presentation on storytelling and how our imaginations and literacy have played a role in the evolution of technology. “Literacy is a birthright for every one of us,” said Burton. The event […]

They stormed the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union in near-military precision and with determined resolve. They had the advantage of surprise-they seemed to materialize out of the ether-as they ambushed the union booming their cause with the help of their sizable crowd, and armed with a megaphone. They made their move just hours before the presidential […]

Considered the largest state protest since Act 10 of 2011, tens of thousands of Latinos, immigrants and pro-immigration supporters from around the state packed the Capitol Thursday morning against what some describe as state anti-immigration legislation. Organizers of “A Day without Latinos” or “Dia Sin Latinos” assembled at the state Capitol building at 10 a.m. […]