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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, […]

The Kar-Jenner clan was made famous in part by Kim Kardashian’s sex tape with former boyfriend Ray J in 2003, after which the family became reality television royalty. On a recent episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, her sister Khloe thanked her for taking one for the team. In her iconic kitchen, Kris Jenner […]

Hollywood has given us a lot of safe-and-repeatable romance tropes over the years. A man rushing through the airport to confess his love for a woman before it’s too late, or two enemies who are forced to work together that end up falling in love. Sure, these story plots are clichéd, but they’re harmless. But […]

A June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court raised the question of whether Wisconsin state’s legislative boundaries were drawn in a fair way. State Sen. Dave Hansen said that Wisconsin is in the top two, if not the most gerrymandered state in the country. A federal court had also stated that maps drawn in 2011 […]

After the release of Attorney General Bill Barr’s four-page summary of the Mueller investigation, many people, including our editorial board, are debating on whether or not Trump should be exonerated. On the grounds of what Mueller was investigating, whether Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election or not, Mueller ultimately decided there was never any […]

The sounds of tribal music echoed throughout the lecture hall in Merrill Hall Thursday night, as students and faculty from the American Indian Studies Program introduced special guest, Winona LaDuke. LaDuke talks to the audience about her version of “Making America Great Again’’ environmentally and talks about the corn that has been man-made. She describes […]

In a nondescript room in UWM’s Lubar building the morning of Friday, April 5th, six members of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee met to oversee the proceedings of five of UWM’s animal research programs. Chaired by Rodney Swain, Ph.D., a professor at UWM, the meeting convened to review ongoing protocols – experiments and […]

Shoes shuffled through a security line in Bolton Hall. Jackets came off, purses were searched and the UWM police officers kept a watchful eye. The UWM College Republicans had a table with free Ronald Reagan posters and calendars. Stickers that stated, “Freedom Not Socialism” sat ready on the table for eager visitors to take and […]

There has been controversy on college campuses around speakers and that clash between what we can say and what the constitution allows us. We always bump up against first amendment rights. Whether we are on the left or right side of it, or have colleagues with different political opinions, we must engage in civil discourse. […]

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 […]

“No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION.” These are the tweets and attitude of President Donald Trump after the Robert Mueller investigation concluded that it “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” The Barr letter saying the Mueller report didn’t […]

On March 4, 2019, Media Milwaukee student journalists initially reported that UW-Milwaukee Professor Anthony Azenabor was facing allegations of sexually assaulting one of his PhD student advisees in the basement of Enderis Hall. The next development in the story came shortly thereafter, when a Media Milwaukee student journalist armed with a list of questions was […]