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Dirk Hoyer, lecturer at the Tallinn Baltic Film and Media School and internationally award-winning filmmaker, is a firm believer that social media users are, to some extent, narcissistic. He calls social media an “ego machine.” There is no denying it- social media is everywhere, and people are producing and consuming content more than ever before. […]

In the spring of 2008, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students Jon Bell, Alex Brucker, Anthony Gagnon, and Michael Kubaszak started Production Club, an organization that focuses on the technical aspects of filmmaking. The founders formed the organization to meet fellow students to recreate scenes with the knowledge they’ve learned through UWM’s film program. The organization transitioned […]

Thousands of people braved the cold to attend the 87th Annual Holiday Parade on Saturday. The parade is a long-held tradition for many in Milwaukee. Brainerd Lopez reports.

Students of the Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies Living Learning Community (JAMS LLC) were introduced to humor journalism when Matt Wild, the city editor for the AV Club in Milwaukee, came to speak to them. Wild, an alum of UWM, explained his background to students in the LLC last month, as well as some of […]

A.V. Club Milwaukee Editor and Onion writer Matt Wild gave a talk to the Journalism and Media Studies Living Learning Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Nov 18th, and told the students to “write about stuff you can have fun with.” Wild received his Bachelor’s degree in Film at UW-Milwaukee. After graduation in 2002, […]

Milwaukee – Although the program wasn’t called “Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies” (JAMS) when Boston Globe op-ed columnist Derrick Z. Jackson graduated from it, he still set aside some time to return to Milwaukee to visit campus and talk about some of his experiences with JAMS students. Packed in a tiny room full of journalism […]

It has been more than a decade, and the younger generation’s remembrances vary as they recall the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Jenna Wahl, a freshman student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, says that she cannot remember the day at all. Her first remembrance of that day was learning about it during her sophomore year […]

A beautiful September morning in Germantown Wisconsin turned tragic in no time. In Mrs. Weiner’s third grade class at County Line Elementary Cody Szohr, 8 at the time, was getting back into the swing of things heading in to his second week of school. A sudden call over the loud speaker sent the teachers quickly […]

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, UW-Milwaukee freshman Ben Gaddour was learning about Native American culture in his second grade class at University School of Milwaukee. He remembers the frantic phone call his teacher received in the middle of the lesson. Gaddour and his classmates sat quietly as they watched their teacher turn on […]

Nineteen-year-old Ellen Malone, from Wales, WI, was only seven and in second grade at the time of the Sept.11 attacks. She remembers her mom driving her to school that cold, windy morning when the news broke on the radio that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York. “I didn’t realize how […]

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 took the nation completely by surprise and irreversibly altered the social landscape of the United States. They ignited tensions in the Middle East, set a new standard for national security and had an immeasurable impact on America’s demography and the way its citizens view it. But the attacks […]

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee recounted the day when the World Trade Center was struck on Sept. 11, 2001. And to some, the memory is like a movie. Denzel Hayes, a sophomore at UWM, says, “The only thing I remember is coming home from school and watching my parents look at the TV screen […]