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2 President’s Letter: Corri Hess 4 Sacred Cat: 6 Headliner: Bob and Susan Mikulay 8 Headliner: John Daniels Jr. 9 MPC Endowment 10 MPC Awards for Excellence in 21 Milwaukee Press Club Board of Governors 22 2021 Press Club Members 23 Press Club Honors BACK COVER Thanks to our Sponsors

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Cover photo courtesy of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 1 Content photo by iStock/Getty Images. PRESIDENT’S LETTER Strong Journalism Prevails A pandemic, a presidential election, a social justice movement, and much more, tested the mettle of Milwaukee journalists. BY CORRI HESS

ast November 20, a partial recount of the 2020 included executives from Wisconsin’s major professional sports presidential election started in Milwaukee and organizations, Wisconsin Tony Evers, U.S. Congressman Madison. It was a long day for reporters as Scott Fitzgerald, who represents the state’s 5th District, and U.S. President ’s campaign pushed back Congresswoman Gwen Moore, who represents the 4th District, as on several aspects. well as candidates for elected office and public officials from local I was covering it in Milwaukee with dozens of municipalities and state agencies. other reporters. Around 3 p.m., we started hearing I want to give a special thanks to board member Marilyn Krause, there had been shots fired at Mayfair Mall in who is instrumental in our Newsmaker program and to our event Wauwatosa. Eight people were injured. sponsors for their generosity. And to Jeff Mayers and our partners at LMany of us left the Wisconsin Center and headed west. While WisPolitics.com. waiting for the Mayfair Mall press conference, national reporters We like to have fun, too. who were in town for the recount commented that if you want news, Board member Charles Benson hosted an evening with Chuck come to Milwaukee. Todd, moderator of “,” in February, during a No kidding. fundraising event for the club. Stay tuned for more special events I’ve never been prouder to be a or more proud of my like this one. fellow journalists than I have in the last 18 months. We’ve also started virtual trivia nights that we hope to move into Looking over the list of Milwaukee Press Club Awards for the Newsroom Pub, our usual headquarters, as soon as we all can Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism, you can see why. gather safely again! Journalists have remained committed to covering how the One of our favorite events of the year, the City Birthday Party, coronavirus has affected peoples’ health and livelihoods for more wasn’t held this year because of the pandemic. But don’t worry, we’re than a year, bearing witness and asking tough questions. already making plans for 2022. And we’re going to party! And they’ve done so while juggling their own personal struggles We would not have a Milwaukee Press Club without our Executive with the pandemic. Director, Joette Richards. Joette works tirelessly behind the scenes I’m just halfway into my first year as Press Club president, and to make sure our events go off without a hitch, and our members I’m just starting to get my head around the many things we do. Our have everything they need. board is committed to being a resource for journalists and providing Over the next year and a half, I am committed to being your press the community with valuable information as well as to our ongoing club president. To me that means continuing with the great work the mission of supporting quality journalism. board members before me started, and our ongoing effort to expand Thank you to the work of the board members who came before our membership and reflect the diversity of our community. me and our current board, especially past president Gene Mueller, Congratulations to all of the winners tonight! president-elect Jim Nelson, treasurer Carl Mueller and secretary Fraser Engerman. Even during this pandemic, we are financially strong and committed to our endowment and its mission of helping Corri Hess students who aspire to become journalists. President, Milwaukee Press Club The Press Club continues to offer a vigorous array of programs that encourage debate on the issues that affect us all. We have pivoted to virtual events over the last year, which has allowed us to schedule more events than ever before, and attract larger audiences and students, who might not be able to attend in person. Recent guests at our Newsmaker Lunch Hour programs have

2 ONCE A YEAR 2021 B O D Y C O M P A N Y

salutes Susan & Bob Mikulay

Headline award winners and only the second couple awarded this Press Club highest honor since 1957!

Your humility, humanity, grace and particularly your focus on inclusiveness sets an extremely high bar of service to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. SACRED CAT

Analyst in Chief Gloria Borger has spent her career mastering the art of political journalism on air and in print. BY FRASER ENGERMAN

ombining candor and the perspective of a reporter Situation Room with ”, “The Lead with ”, and analyst who knows how Washington works, “Outfront with ”, and “ 360”, Borger Gloria Borger breaks down the political and policy has had a front seat to some of the biggest stories coming out of issues of the day. Washington these last years-- including the election of Donald But don’t ever call Gloria Borger just a Trump as President in 2016, the Mueller investigation, two historic “talking head.” presidential impeachments and the election of in 2020. CNN’s chief political analyst considers herself a And in an era of 24-hour news cycles, and real-time analysis, reporter first and foremost. “I am a journalist, Borger also appreciates what she calls “long form” television. I don’t go on the air and tell people what I think, it’s based on what In addition to near daily appearances on CNN and writing an CI know,” Borger says. occasional column for CNN.com, she has also written and narrated Appearing regularly on the network’s programs “The presidential candidate documentaries since 2012, including a

4 ONCE A YEAR 2021 two-hour special last year on Joe Biden. Whether it was Trump, early 1970s paved the way for the success she and her classmates or Biden, the CNN audience received in-depth ultimately achieved. personal looks at the men who might become president. In the In a speech to the Colgate graduation class of 2014 she said, documentary on the life of Mitt Romney, Borger traveled to France “It wasn’t always an easy transition. It never is, but there is no to report on Romney’s missionary life and she conducted several disputing how far we have come.” Borger has come far indeed. in-depth interviews with him and his family. After Romney lost the During summers she worked at The Washington Star, which led to 2012 election, Borger conducted the first extended post-election a full-time position covering politics after graduation. While at the interview with Romney and his wife Ann as they candidly discussed Star, she co-authored a daily serial, eventually published as a book, the campaign. “Federal Triangle”, a parody of political life in Washington.

“It wasn’t always an easy transition. It never is, but there is no disputing how far we have come.”

In addition, Borger’s 2010 documentary on attorneys David Borger considers herself very lucky to get on a major daily paper Boies and Ted Olson, who teamed up in an unlikely political and right after and ventured quickly into political reporting. legal alliance to support same-sex marriage, earned her an From The Washington Star, Borger went on to and Emmy nomination. became their chief congressional correspondent. She then took her She revisited the issue again in 2013 with a 30-minute CNN talents to U.S. News & World Report and took over the magazine’s special, which earned a 2014 National Headline Award. political column when went to work at the White More recently, Borger has produced reports on some of the key House under President . figures in the Mueller investigation, including Robert Mueller, Television beckoned when she spent most Sundays with Bob former Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Trump Schiefer on CBS’ “”. Borger also anchored at CNBC lawyer . and then went back to CBS for a stint as a national political reporter Borger readily acknowledges how hard the job of journalist is in and contributor to “ II” before joining CNN in late 2007 this current polarized environment, coupled with an endless news at the start of what would an incredible political year resulting in cycle fueled by social media. And the criticism and personal attacks, the election of as president. particularly on social media, are more intense. “I have learned to live When asked how she made the transition from print to television, with it,” she says. Borger acknowledges it was gradual. “I consider myself a writer “The (Mueller) investigation was hard, but you realize why first. Print teaches you how to think and organize, I learned through a free press is more important when you hear autocrats around the print the architecture for an interview for TV and I’ve used my print world picking up the phrase ‘fake news.’ You realize it originated skills to write long-form for CNN.” here and it makes you understand even more fully the importance of While the 2020 presidential campaign and its aftermath have a free press.” posed unique challenges for American government and the media, Borger caught the journalism bug early. She was always curious they have reinforced for this veteran journalist the essential and asked a lot of questions. She was the editor of both her high contributions that reporters make in the functioning of school and college newspapers before beginning her college career at our . Colgate University the first year the school became a co-educational “Facts matter, and the reason I got hooked on this profession as institution. Passionate about mentoring young women today, a student is exactly the same reason I revere it to this day: telling Borger remembers how her experiences on the campus in the truthful stories so that we better understand the world around us.”

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 5 HEADLINER An Unstoppable Force A team in life and in work, Bob and Susan Mikulay have made Milwaukee’s most vulnerable their top priority. BY GENE MUELLER

Robert is from the Twin Cities and lived on the East Coast for 25 years but “never gave any thought to leaving once I got here,” even after being given the chance to go elsewhere. Susan, conversely, is from southeast Wisconsin but was working in Washington, D.C. before jumping at an offer that allowed her to come back. Working with so many different volunteer organizations gives Susan a unique chance to see a city she says is unlike any other. “No matter what we’re asking for, people come together immediately en masse…everyone works together so well and gels together so well. I can’t imagine another community like it in the country.” After more than two in Milwaukee, Robert still thinks of f the adage “team work makes the dream work” is true, then himself as “one of the new kids on the block,” one who is bullish on the Robert and Susan Mikulay are truly living the dream. region’s future. “We’re addressing some of the significant issues that These two Milwaukee Press Club 2021 Headliners share a long face our community,” he says. “In some cases, we’re far along. In others, list of volunteer civic projects and accomplishments. They both we’re in early dialogue, but it seems to me the right people have gotten were active community contributors before their personal paths around the table.” Problems once deemed intractable, he says, are now crossed, and continue now that they share a life together—one being dealt with “by very dedicated people.” that includes a son who’s an aspiring actor in Los Angeles. The Mikulays’ team approach was also employed as Robert battled Robert is a retired executive vice president of marketing cancer—stage-four mantle cell lymphoma diagnosed in the summer of for Miller Brewing Company who is currently president of the board 2017. “To get a diagnosis like that is eye-opening. It’s frightening,” he Iof trustees of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee and is also admits. “Early on, we certainly spent some time at home holding each chairman of the board for locally-based City Lights Brewing. He is a other and crying…I would not have made it through the past two years if former board chair at Penfield Children’s Center (and remains active it were not for my wife. She is an absolute rock.” with the organization today) and worked with the Milwaukee Institute of A contact they’d made through their work with breast cancer charities Art and Design (MIAD). got them to specialists at Froedert Hospital’s cancer center. “We cannot Susan is an independent business and communications consultant sing their praises enough,” Robert says. “We are very fortunate to have as well as founder of St. Croix Productions, working with writers, that entity in Milwaukee.” actors, directors and producers to bring their work to stage, screen and They were able to first get Robert into remission so he could then television. She is involved in a host of other activities, including her receive a desperately needed stem cell transplant. “It saved his life,” efforts with College Possible, which seeks to make higher education— Susan says of the aggressive approach, adding that her husband’s and success—a reality for low-income students. prospects would’ve been bleak had it not worked. Then there are the many tasks they tackle together, something some When it did, they were asked if they were going to slow down. “First married couples couldn’t pull off, or at least not as smoothly as the of all, we don’t know how,” she says, pointing out that Robert was on Mikulays seem to. What’s the secret? conference calls even as he was undergoing treatment, attached to a “I listen well and know my place,” Robert jokes before turning serious. chemotherapy bag. “It never, ever crossed our minds to stop volunteer “We’ve done it so often now, for so long—we know each other’s cadence, work,” Susan explains. “What it made us realize is no, we’re not slowing each other’s strength and we don’t get in each other’s way.” Susan says down. In fact, we’re gonna speed this up…we’ve got a real time limit they discovered, without real planning, that the bulk of the volunteer here. Every day matters.” work centered on education and the arts in what she calls Milwaukee’s And so, the teamwork continues, from two tireless volunteers sharing “under-served communities,” an approach she says they’ll continue a life and helping the community that they chose to make their home, moving forward. relentlessly striving to make the dreams of others a reality.

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414.271.6650 | plummedia.com HEADLINER Leading in His Own Way John Daniels Jr. has served on many boards and in prominent roles in the legal and business community. But his legacy may be his dedication to nurturing the careers of Milwaukee’s young Black men. BY MARK KASS

ohn Daniels Jr.’s personal mantra is “everybody counts, Daniels also hosts the Fellowship Open, an annual charity golf every day.” That philosophy invigorates everything and fundraising event that raises money for Milwaukee youth with which he is involved, whether it is working with a organizations. Over the past 18 years, the event has directed almost client as a very successful real estate attorney or leading $2 million to nearly 80 youth organizations. an effort to improve education efforts or access for “The activities that the Fellowship Open have supported have residents in Milwaukee’s central city. affected literally thousands of youngsters in Milwaukee in all aspects Daniels’ day job is chair emeritus of Quarles & Brady, of their development, including the arts, technology, job skills and a prominent Milwaukee law firm, but he spends a great job readiness,” the group describes on its website. deal of time working on major community efforts, including one of Another way Daniels contributes to the city is co-ownership with Jhis favorites – MKE Fellows, which offers support to academically his sister, Valerie Daniels Carter, of V&J Foods in Milwaukee. The talented African American young men in Wisconsin to ensure that company runs numerous Burger Kings in Milwaukee that employ they graduate from college prepared for career success. It also serves young people. as a vehicle to attract African American college graduates to return Daniels is dogged in his pursuits but also capable of skillfully to the greater Milwaukee area. reaching out to multiple constituencies. “I have been with him in Daniels is often seen taking the MKE Fellows to major Milwaukee church basements and in corporate boardrooms,” Nettles says. “I am events and introducing them to local business leaders. always amazed at his effectiveness and credibility.” He is described on the Quarles & Brady website as an honored champion of diversity and inclusion, a much sought-after thought leader on many topics, a widely recognized pillar of the community, an active agent of organizational and civic change, and a crusader for high-quality education and access to it. Attorney and private equity investor Cory Nettles believe Daniels should be added to the pantheon of iconic leaders in Milwaukee. “The guy has just blazed a trail — and he does it with so much modesty and grace,” Nettles says. Daniels grew up on the city’s near northwest side and graduated from Custer High School. He remains committed to improving the future of the city’s up-and-coming generation as well as attracting and retaining talented Black young adults. “My commitment to urban life is a function of a lot of different life experiences that complement each other,” Daniels says. Daniels has remained committed to his native Milwaukee for decades. On one hand, he has focused on improving services and education for kids in the central city and his family’s name appears on a branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. He also served on the organization’s board. On the other hand, Daniels has assumed broader roles on the boards of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the Greater Milwaukee Committee, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

8 ONCE A YEAR 2021 LEFT: Denisse Hernandez takes photos as art director for ’s Arches magazine, which received a grant from the MPC Endowment.

RIGHT: Sara Stanislawski, a senior at Wauwatosa West High School, runs a student news publication staff meeting via Zoom. Sara received a $1,000 scholarship funded by the MPC Endowment.

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Joel Dresang, Landaas & Company, president Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, vice president David Niles, Support Journalism through PKI Digital Marketing, treasurer Lindsey Anderson, Milwaukee Magazine, secretary the MPC Endowment Tom Heinen, BY JOEL DRESANG, PRESIDENT, MPC ENDOWMENT Retired Lindsey McKee, Despite disruptions from the pandemic, University. As the philanthropic affiliate of the VISIT Milwaukee the MPC Endowment continued its efforts to advance Milwaukee Press Club, the Endowment has remained Jim Nelson, journalism excellence in 2020 and enjoyed steady steadfast in its commitments to support such efforts. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel growth in its funds thanks to donor generosity. Recognizing that the need for journalism is Erin Richards, Among the Endowment’s activities in the last year: escalating alongside the challenges of practicing USA Today F Providing journalism scholarships at the it, support for the MPC Endowment continues to Nyesha Stone, University of Wisconsin-Madison, grow. At the end of 2020, assets managed by the Carvd N Stone and UW-Milwaukee MPC Endowment topped $450,000. F Funding a new scholarship for a high school Funds include money maintained for the Don senior awarded through the Wisconsin Walker Memorial Scholarship and the Eric Miller EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Journalism Education Association PantherVision Scholarship, as well as memorials Corri Hess, F Supporting college student publications, established for Tim Cuprisin, Harold Gauer and Ed , including Arches magazine at Mount Hinshaw. Press Club president Mary University A new fund was set up in 2020 to honor the Mark Zoromski, F Paying for the awards given in the legacy of Meg Jones, a reporter at the Milwaukee Marquette University Diederich College of Communication MPC Awards for Excellence in Journal Sentinel, who died in December at age 58. Wisconsin Journalism Since 1973, the MPC Endowment has been Patricia Hastings, F Covering admission for students attending advancing excellence in journalism collaboratively UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass the Virtual Gridiron Awards through scholarships, grants and awards. Donations Communication The pandemic suspended some programs in are conservatively invested by Camila Guarda Velasco, 2020 that the MPC Endowment had planned to licensed professionals. UW-Milwaukee Department fund, including paid newsroom internships through Please consider contributing, including through of Journalism, Advertising, the Urban Journalism Workshop at Marquette planned giving. Learn more at MPCEndowment.org. and Media Studies

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 9 Professional Winners Pandemic Showcase Institute of Southeast WI Outbroken: A Pandemic’s Effect SILVER Best Pandemic Story in Print Medical College of Wisconsin on Wisconsin’s Food and Farms Maddie Burakoff GOLD WMSE 91.7 FM and Medical Spectrum News 1 Volume One staff College of Wisconsin SILVER 365 Days Of COVID-19: The Year Volume One The Epidemiology of Disease: Zac Schultz In Pandemic Science Outbroken: A Pandemic’s Effect COVID-19 (CTSI Discovery Mike Baron on Wisconsin’s Food and Farms Radio Episode #78) Ethan Freel BRONZE Tom Micksch Bram Sable-Smith SILVER SILVER PBS Wisconsin Wisconsin Watch and WPR Natalie Yahr Maureen McCollum COVID on the Campaign Trail How politics paralyzed Cap Times Wisconsin Public Radio Wisconsin’s pandemic response How Madison’s Latino ‘I Think About My Friends Every BRONZE — and left families to grieve community is pulling together to Day’: Third Graders Wrap Up Megan Carpenter their losses survive COVID School Year From Home During Spectrum News 1 Pandemic Covid Clots: A Covid Long- Writing Hauler Opens Up About His BRONZE Best Critical Review BRONZE Long-Term Symptoms Milwaukee Business Journal GOLD Christina Van Zelst staff Dominique Paul Noth Jerry Imig Best Pandemic Story Milwaukee Business Journal Urban Milwaukee WITI FOX6 News that Appeared Online Small Business, Big Mission 3 Theater Reviews A Driveway Turned Center Stage GOLD Gail Grzybowski Urban Milwaukee Best Pandemic Story in Audio Best Pandemic Story Justin Migliano in Video Milwaukee PBS SILVER GOLD Gwendolyn Rice Bryan B. Belmer GOLD Home/Work | Stories of Impact | Volume One staff Gail’s Dad Isthmus Reza Shaker, MD Life worth living Clinical & Translational Science Volume One

10 ONCE A YEAR 2021 AWARDS

BRONZE Best Long Soft Best Sports Story Best Investigative Dean Robbins Feature Story GOLD Story or Series On Wisconsin GOLD Jake Malooley (No gold awarded) Hair-Raising Performances Dylan Brogan Milwaukee Magazine Isthmus A Family Affair SILVER Best Coverage of a Single Last dance Parker Schorr News Topic or Event Including SILVER Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch Breaking News SILVER Rich Rovito Digging Blind GOLD Michael Muckian Milwaukee Magazine Henry Michaels Dylan Brogan This Nashotah Native Ran BRONZE Madison Magazine Isthmus Her First-Ever Marathon and Bram Sable Smith Black Lives Matter The Ghosts of Lost Live Performances Qualified for the Olympics. Wisconsin Watch and WPR Now, She Waits. Costly Care SILVER BRONZE Cap Times staff Marc Eisen BRONZE Best Public Service Cap Times Madison Magazine Erica Krug Story or Series Madison on Election Day The Future of Madison’s Isthmus GOLD ‘Epiconomy’ Pretty Catchy Natalie Yahr BRONZE Cap Times Scott Girard Best Short Hard Best Single Editorial, Statement of Unreasonable suspicion: Cap Times Feature Story Editorial Position or Opinion When residents call police, Madison School Board votes GOLD GOLD who pays the price when bias unanimously to end police in Tea Krulos Kaleem Caire shapes their concerns? schools contract Milwaukee Magazine Madison Magazine Reporting Live from the Street The Black Hands That Built SILVER Best Multi-Story Coverage of a America Wisconsin Watch, APM Reports, Single Feature Topic or Event SILVER 371 Productions and WPR GOLD Jim Malewitz SILVER Narrow Margin Wisconsin Watch Wisconsin Watch Kenneth Cole First News Their Wisconsin ballots never Milwaukee Independent BRONZE Seeking social justice in arrived. So they risked a Shorewood residents worry that Dorsey Kindler Wisconsin pandemic. Or stayed home. proposed Atwater Beach fee Concealed Carry Magazine could restrict recreational access Truckers & Self-Defense SILVER BRONZE Rich Rovito Eric Lindquist BRONZE Best Column Milwaukee Magazine Leader-Telegram Dan Shafer GOLD Milwaukee’s Movement Scary as hell The Recombobulation Area Jessie Opoien Wisconsin Is Now the Epicenter Cap Times Best Short Soft BRONZE for Coronavirus in America Linda Falkenstein Feature Story SILVER GOLD Isthmus Best Business Paul Fanlund Food access and COVID-19 Matthew Martinez Story or Series Cap Times Milwaukee Neighborhood GOLD Best Long Hard News Service Milwaukee Business Journal staff BRONZE Feature Story ‘I felt like I lost a part of me’: Milwaukee Business Journal Dan Shafer GOLD How Camille Mays finds peace Small Business Chronicles The Recombobulation Area Dan Simmons after gun violence took her son Milwaukee Magazine SILVER Best Explanatory The Man by the River SILVER Sari Lesk Story or Series Edgar Mendez Milwaukee Business Journal GOLD SILVER Milwaukee Neighborhood The PPP Story: How the Milwaukee Business Journal staff Dylan Brogan News Service Paycheck Protection Program Milwaukee Business Journal Isthmus Basketball coach demands operated in Wisconsin One System, (Unequal Access) A swing through a his students score on and - How the financial systems fails divided Wisconsin off the court BRONZE Black-owned businesses and Lindsay Christians how that might change BRONZE BRONZE Cap Times Rob Thomas Grubhub hubbub Isthmus Cap Times WILL power I’ll be back ... with lunch

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 11 SILVER SILVER SILVER SILVER Doug Erickson Brandon Raygo Lee Matz Ken Wangler Preston Schmitt Cap Times Milwaukee Independent Dustin Reid On Wisconsin Exhausted teaching assistant Courage, Integrity, and Honor: Daniel Acker The Blast That Milwaukee pays tribute to Kelly Welke Changed Everything BRONZE fallen firefighters at special Concealed Carry Magazine Ken Wangler memorial ceremony BRONZE Concealed Carry Magazine BRONZE BRONZE Maggie Ginsberg Cold Start Ann Christianson Ken Wangler Maija Inveiss Ashley Duchemin Dustin Reid Madison Magazine Best Photo Essay or Series Kayla Ermer Daniel Acker Where Our Garbage Goes + Tips GOLD Shayna Mace Concealed Carry Magazine for Low-Waste Living Angela Major BRAVA Magazine Check the Ingredients Wisconsin Public Radio July/August 2020, September/ Best Personal Profile Best Photos Of 2020 October 2020, November/ Best Sports Photograph GOLD December 2020 GOLD Jake Malooley SILVER Rich Zimmermann Milwaukee Magazine Ruthie Hauge Best Single Cover Design Milwaukee Independent Organizing for Apocalypse Now Cap Times Vintage racers from yesteryear GOLD Madison nightlife, redefined unlikely to rev up at the Tim Burton SILVER Milwaukee Mile Speedway Rebecca Radix Mary Louise Schumacher BRONZE this summer Madison Magazine Milwaukee Magazine Claudio Martinez Black Lives Matter Ruth Joe Brusky (No silver or bronze awarded) Lee Matz SILVER BRONZE Milwaukee Independent Newspaper Design Tim Burton Rich Rovito Civil Rights Murals: Local artists Tommy Washbush unite to inspire change for Best Overall Design Milwaukee Magazine Madison Magazine communities of color GOLD This is the Revolution in Milwaukee Mark Kass A Tale of Epic Proportions Todd Bragstad Best Consumer Story Best News Photograph Jacqueline Prins BRONZE or Series GOLD Matt Haesly Brandon Raygo GOLD Lee Matz Milwaukee Business Journal Cap Times Bram Sable Smith Claudio Martinez Reaching out to dads in jail Wisconsin Watch and WPR Joe Brusky (No silver or bronze awarded) Lives on Hold Dominic Inouye Best Single Story Dan Barrett Best Special or Feature Design SILVER Milwaukee Independent Section Design GOLD Jennifer Rude Klett Photomosaic of George Floyd GOLD Tim Burton Milwaukee Journal Sentinel uses 2,000 images from peaceful Mark Kass Madison Magazine Best Baking Ever: Freshly Milled Milwaukee marches Todd Bragstad The Future of Madison’s Flour Adds Flavor, Nutrition to Jacqueline Prins ‘Epiconomy’ Holiday Baking SILVER Barb Zaferos Scott Paulus Jim Piwowarczyk SILVER Milwaukee Business Journal BRONZE Wisconsin Right Now Ken Wangler Jenna Sachs Milwaukee Business Journal - 40 Dustin Reid Kenosha Burns Under 40 Annette Riese Kurt Adams Jared Blohm Sara Smith BRONZE (No silver or bronze awarded) WITI FOX6 News Lee Matz Concealed Carry Magazine Contact 6 Roll On Milwaukee Independent Magazine Design Marching for CPAC: Best Overall Design Youth group chalks messages BRONZE Visual Journalism GOLD Ken Wangler Best Illustration or Cartoon around City Hall demanding Tim Burton Dustin Reid GOLD police accountability Emily Culp Daniel Acker Tommy Washbush Sarah Frautschi Best Feature Photograph Ed Combs Madison Magazine Carol Shufro GOLD Concealed Carry Magazine A Tale of Epic Proportions Madison Magazine Ruthie Hauge Edgy Art January, August and Cap Times September issues Virtual School

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Best Long Hard BRONZE reliable energy you depend on, Feature Story Tony Bettack GOLD Melissa Barclay while supporting our goal of Chali Pittman Newsradio WTMJ WORT FM Anatomy of a Protestor being net carbon neutral by 2050. Doulas Demand Change Best Short Soft Learn more at we-energies.com SILVER Feature Story Marisa Wojcik GOLD PBS Wisconsin Laura Pavin Tribal Nations Took Early Wisconsin Public Radio COVID-19 Precautions Why Isn’t The UP Part Of Wisconsin? BRONZE Richie Burke SILVER DJ Hines Nate Imig Greg Marshall 88Nine Radio Milwaukee Khalif El-Amin Barby the Book Fairy

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MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 13 BRONZE Stephen Davis Best Individual Reporting Jeff Mlagan Maureen McCollum Sara Smith of Sports Darin Malkowski Wisconsin Public Radio WITI FOX6 News GOLD Milwaukee PBS Meet The Nine-Year-Old Open Record Stephen Watson Deaf StorySlam - The Arts Page Entrepreneur Behind Kyric’s WISN-TV Lemonade BRONZE SILVER Richie Burke (No silver awarded) Carl Deffenbaugh Best Use of Audio GoGeddit Marketing & Media and Andrew Konkle Within a Report OnMilwaukee BRONZE WITI FOX6 News GOLD The GoGedders Podcast Stephanie Sutton Venmo Challenge Tony Bettack WISN-TV Newsradio WTMJ Video BRONZE Kenosha Protests Best Investigative Report Alexandria Mack Best Coverage of a Breaking or Series News Story Brian Ewig SILVER GOLD (No gold awarded) Erica Drehfal Maureen McCollum Amanda St. Hilaire Stephanie Schreiber Wisconsin Public Radio David Michuda SILVER Darin Malkowski Meet The Wisconsinites Who WITI FOX6 News WISN 12 News Staff Milwaukee PBS Build Their Own ‘Star Wars’ MPS Fundraiser Fallout WISN-TV Major General Marcia Anderson Droids 2 Officers Shot: Fugitive SILVER Manhunt Best Short Hard BRONZE Kristin Byrne Feature Story Andrew Konkle Marty Hobe GOLD BRONZE WITI FOX6 News Tamott Wolverton Suzanne Spencer TMJ4 News Staff Sound Of Separation Nicole Buckley Eric Litsheim TMJ4 News TMJ4 News WITI FOX6 News Mayfair Mall Shooting Best Writing in an Unemployment System Collapse Cold Case: Warren Wright Audio Story BRONZE GOLD BRONZE SILVER WISN 12 News Staff Stu Levitan Chamraz Nathan Phelps WISN-TV WORT FM Marty Hobe Spectrum News 1 Mayfair Mall Mass Shooting Madison in the Sixties: The Tamott Wolverton Branding Company Pivots Battle of Dow TMJ4 News Best Multi-Day Coverage of During Pandemic Use of Force an Ongoing Story SILVER (No gold awarded) BRONZE Yia Lor Best Long Hard Feature Story Tamott Wolverton Maureen McCollum GOLD SILVER TMJ4 News Wisconsin Public Radio Carl Deffenbaugh WISN 12 News Staff Protecting First Responders My Mother’s Tea: Skepticism Andrew Konkle WISN-TV And Love Of Family Traditions WITI FOX6 News Best Short Soft Police Shooting Of Jacob Blake Am I Really That Sick? Feature Story BRONZE GOLD BRONZE Brad Williams SILVER Trevor Keller FOX6 News Staff WIZM-AM, KCLH-FM Ryan Jenkins Josh Kappler WITI FOX6 News Yesterday in La Crosse, 1967 Ice Ryan Whittaker PBS Wisconsin COVID-19 Bowl TMJ4 News Wisconsin Life: Hip-Hop Chess 360: Interrupting Violence Club Best Individual Reporting Best Podcast of News GOLD BRONZE SILVER GOLD Tarik Moody Jeff Dahdah Amanda St. Hilaire Miguel Ramirez Reggie Jackson Spectrum News 1 WITI FOX6 News Wisconsin Nate Imig Cat House/Gatos Al Ataque The Effort to Name Wisconsin’s 88Nine Radio Milwaukee State Cheese SILVER By Every Measure Best Long Soft Jenna Sachs Feature Story BRONZE WITI FOX6 News SILVER GOLD Derrick Rose Bryan Polcyn Tiff Pua Ryan Casper BRONZE Amanda St. Hilaire Sandy Maxx WISN-TV Kasey Chronis Jenna Sachs Jason Piekarz “Infinite Humanity” Photo WITI FOX6 News Dave Michuda Brian Ewig Project

14 ONCE A YEAR 2021 Best News Program FOX6 Photojournalist Staff GOLD WITI FOX6 News WISN 12 News Child Care Crisis WISN-TV 50 Days: Shutdown Diary SILVER Bryan Polcyn SILVER David Michuda FOX6 News Staff FOX6 Photojournalist Staff WITI FOX6 News WITI FOX6 News Finding a Way Forward Who Are the Media? A STANDING BRONZE BRONZE Tariq Almagri Rachael Glaszcz OVATION FOR Shelby Kisling Eric Steffens JR Ross TMJ4 News Henry Seroogy Juan Pablo Strong TONIGHT’S Emma Siewert Steven Walters Best Documentary HONOREES WisconsinEye.org GOLD WisconsinEye | Rewind: Your Grant Fenster Year in Review for 2020 Laurie Gorman Jon Hornbacher The Milwaukee Brewers are proud Best Sports Program Jon Sovey GOLD Kerman Eckes to join the Milwaukee Press Club in Stephanie Miller Will Salzmann Stephen Watson PBS Wisconsin celebrating the contributions and WISN-TV Nancy Zieman: Extraordinary Big 12 Sports: 2020 An Grace achievements of tonight’s honorees. Unprecedented Year SILVER Thank you for all your hard work SILVER Traci Neuman Dennis Krause Brian Ewig and dedication toward making a Donny Rogers Chris Michalski Craig Hofer Maryann Lazarski positive difference in Wisconsin. Spectrum News 1 The Roundtable on Spectrum: Chris Hays Packers Top Ravens Bohdan Zachary Milwaukee PBS Best Newscast Shipwrecks of Milwaukee GOLD WISN 12 News BRONZE WISN-TV WISN 12 News Mayfair Mall Mass Shooting WISN-TV Changing The Game SILVER TMJ4 News Staff Best Editing TMJ4 News GOLD TMJ4 News Today - Post- Andrew Konkle Election Day WITI FOX6 News Andrew Konkle Composite BRONZE FOX6 News Staff SILVER WITI FOX6 News Jason Fechner FOX6 News at 9: Mayfair Mall Spectrum News 1 Shooting The First Days Under Safer at Home Best Writing in a Video Story BRONZE GOLD Saman Wanniarachchi Amanda St. Hilaire WISN-TV David Michuda Coronavirus Photo Journal

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 15 Online Best Website Design BRONZE SILVER Best Online Coverage GOLD John Pavlovitz Gary D’Amato of News Paul Higgins Milwaukee Independent Wisconsin.Golf | Killarney GOLD Evan Primakow The loss of faith and price of Golf Media TMJ4 News Web Staff Katie Williams our pandemic After a lifetime spent helping TMJ4 News Carole Nicksin golfers, driving range owner Bob Burns needs golf’s help TMJ4.com Allison Garcia Best Use of Multi-Platform Chris Drosner Reporting Milwaukee Magazine GOLD BRONZE SILVER Rich Rovito Rich Kremer Kevin Schwaller Jason Fechner Milwaukee Magazine Rachael Vasquez SILVER How a Wisconsin Senator Spectrum News 1 Angela Major Tarik Moody Helped Establish Earth Day 50 Bridgit Bowden Flipeleven The Stories that Defined 2020 Years Ago Shamane Mills 88Nine Radio Milwaukee David Hyland RadioMilwaukee.org SILVER Best Sports Story Wisconsin Public Radio Will Cushman GOLD Kenosha Protest, Shooting BRONZE Corrinne Hess Rich Rovito Kristian Knutsen Zac Schultz Milwaukee Magazine Laura Zimmerman Bridgit Bowden How Waukesha’s Medalist Is BRONZE Philip Ashby WPR Staff WisContext Spending Her Summer Without Kristian Knutsen Olympics Wisconsin Public Radio wiscontext.org WisContext, PBS Wisconsin and Madison, Milwaukee Protests Wisconsin Public Radio SILVER Best Local News or Police Residency, Unions and Feature Website Rich Rovito Best Online Coverage Oversight in Wisconsin Milwaukee Magazine GOLD of Sports Milkmen Bring Home the GOLD David Hyland BRONZE Championship For Milwaukee Andrea Anderson Brad Evans Jim Kelsh Jenny Peek Amy Smith BRONZE Mike Davis John K. Wilson WISN.com Gary D’Amato Gary D’Amato Alyssa Allemand AMBER Alert ends with 3 dead Wisconsin.Golf | Killarney Rob Hernandez Erik Lorenzsonn Golf Media Dennis McCann Mary Kate McCoy Best Hard Feature Story Do you believe in miracles? For Wisconsin.Golf | Killarney Wisconsin Public Radio GOLD this group of Erin Hills caddies, Golf Media WPR.org Corrinne Hess with one of them battling a Wisconsin Public Radio serious illness, a single swing (No silver or bronze awarded) SILVER The Summer That Wasn’t was a sign from above. Kristian Knutsen Best Use of Multimedia Will Cushman SILVER Best Business Story GOLD WisContext Maddie Burakoff or Series Volume One staff wiscontext.org Spectrum News 1 GOLD Volume One Wisconsin Researchers Try Out Maredithe Meyer “Outbroken” feature website BRONZE A Quicker, Easier Coronavirus BizTimes Milwaukee Don Ross Test Businesses, insurers at odds SILVER Volume One staff over COVID-19 business Lee Matz Volume One BRONZE interruption claims Milwaukee Independent VolumeOne.org Andy Soth Civil Rights groups offer words WisContext SILVER of healing to Kenosha until Best How AIDS Pushed Wisconsin Kathryn Larson Mayor John Antarmian upends GOLD to Change its Approach to Spectrum News 1 the effort Lee Matz Public Health Madison Company is First in Milwaukee Independent U.S. to Put a Black Woman on a BRONZE From SARS to the frontline of Best Soft Feature Story Beer Can Hailey Kunz tragedies: A journey of photo- GOLD Aly Prouty documenting history in realtime Mike Woods BRONZE Kevin Schwaller Spectrum News 1 Gary D’Amato Spectrum News 1 SILVER An Insider’s Look at Van Halen’s Wisconsin.Golf | Wisconsin Staff Heather Cox Richardson Three Days in Madison Killarney Golf Media Spectrum News 1 Milwaukee Independent Help wanted: Make your Kenosha Live Blog Thoughts from an American living on a golf course. Anyone out there?

16 ONCE A YEAR 2021 ON Best Investigative Story SILVER or Series Dan Shafer GOLD The Recombobulation Area Will Cushman DEADLINE? Howard Hardee BRONZE Jim Malewitz Andy Moore Kristian Knutsen PBS Wisconsin CALL ONE OF WisContext and Wisconsin Watch No Place Like Home COVID-19 Data Reporting and Misinformation in Best Explanatory Story AMERICA’S Wisconsin or Series GOLD TOP RESEARCH SILVER Will Cushman Dee J. Hall Mark Riechers Coburn Dukehart Samantha Wisconsin Watch WisContext Child abuse doctor leaves a trail Wisconsin’s Pandemic Year of accusations of bullying SILVER BRONZE Andrea Anderson Rob Mentzer Jenny Peek Keegan Kyle John K. Wilson Wisconsin Public Radio Erik Lorenzsonn Rising Inmate Population In David Hyland Wisconsin Public Radio Wisconsin Strains Local Jails WPR.org’s Coronavirus In Wisconsin Section Best Public Service Story or Series BRONZE GOLD Peter Cameron WUWM, Milwaukee Journal Wisconsin Watch Sentinel, Milwaukee PBS and Lesson Plans: Rural schools Milwaukee Public Library grapple with COVID-19 Staffs WUWM, Milwaukee Journal Best Journalistic Use of Sentinel, Milwaukee PBS and Social Media to Tell or Milwaukee Public Library Enhance a Story Listen MKE GOLD Brad Evans SILVER Amy Smith Howard Hardee WISN.com With hundreds of faculty members in a Max Witynski Jacob Blake police shooting Jessica Christoffer wide range of disciplines – from public Keenan Chen SILVER health to politics, to education, Allison Dikanovic Wisconsin Watch, – we have the expertise you need. First Draft News, Center for Clara Neupert Journalism Ethics Princess Safiya Byers Claire DeRosa Uncovering disinformation Wisconsin Watch and Milwaukee Contact media-services-team@edu. in Wisconsin Neighborhood News Service Evictions engagement BRONZE Will Cushman BRONZE WisContext Nyesha Stone Wisconsin Masks Up Pamelina Williams Carvd N Stone Best Column GOLD Dennis McCann Wisconsin.Golf | Killarney UWM consumer marketing expert Purush Papatla (right), co-director Golf Media of the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute.

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 17 Collegiate Winners

Pandemic Showcase UW-Milwaukee Best Long Hard SILVER Feature Story Best Pandemic Story Deemed Essential Wat Lee in Print GOLD Media Milwaukee - University of GOLD BRONZE Brian Huynh Wisconsin-Milwaukee Giselle Martin Gomez Laura Bunn Curb magazine Party Outreach is Critical to Mount Mary University Arches UW Madison School of Journalism 404 School Not Found Reaching Asian American Voters Nonprofits survive the pandemic and Mass Communication Quarantine: An Acrostic SILVER BRONZE SILVER Quinn Clark John Quinnies Hannah Feuer Best Pandemic Story That Emily Cabaltera Media Milwaukee - University of Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle Appeared Online Mount Mary University Wisconsin-Milwaukee Nervous about postal delays? GOLD Arches Don’t Know What to Here’s how to make sure your Emily Blazer Mount Mary students explain Believe This Election Season vote is counted. Mount Mary University who they voted for Arches Best Short Soft A Critical Lens on MMU Safety Feature Story BRONZE BRONZE Aspen Ramos Regulations: Are COVID-19 Addison Lathers GOLD Marquette Wire Guidelines Being Enforced? The Daily Cardinal Richa Karmarkar Parties, social gatherings still ‘The system is broken’: Media Milwaukee - University of taking place on campus SILVER Madison’s local government is Wisconsin-Milwaukee Natallie St. Onge inaccessible to those that need Finding Hope through Music: Best Pandemic Story Marquette Wire it most The Voices of Quarantine in Audio Student, alum contract GOLD coronavirus abroad Best Long Soft SILVER Haley Krueger Feature Story Hannah Feuer Media Milwaukee BRONZE GOLD Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle UWM Offers Targeted Covid Adam Kelnhofer Adam Kelnhofer Mequon native’s novel is on Test for People with Symptoms UWM Post Ethan Duran childhood medical condition Milwaukee Voting Lines Stretch UWM Post “It was a nightmare.” – Students SILVER for Blocks, Voters Pelted with Hail BRONZE Media Milwaukee staff Talk About Their Experiences Brianna Schubert Media Milwaukee - University of Writing After Residence Halls Close UWM Post Vegetables, Kit-Kats and Home: Wisconsin-Milwaukee Best News Story SILVER How a UWM Student-Artist How We’re Living Now GOLD Molly Liebergall is Making it Work in Remote Adam Kelnhofer Curb magazine Learning BRONZE UWM Post Bedroom Beats Payton Bachochin Milwaukee Recount Results Best Sports Story Media Milwaukee - University of to Be Announced Day After BRONZE GOLD Wisconsin-Milwaukee Thanksgiving Video Games Strengthen a Genevieve Vahl Andrew Amouzou Curb magazine Marquette Wire Fragile Bond for Sisters Stuck SILVER Take What You Need, Give What Fleur Eggnick reflects on athletic at Home Annie Mattea You Can family, journey to MU Marquette Wire Best Pandemic Story Dean of the College of Business Best Short Hard SILVER in Video Administration, Joe Daniels, Feature Story Matt Yeazel GOLD dies at 60 Mazie Baldus GOLD Marquette Wire Will Cioci What’s summer without Lelah Byron BRONZE Marquette Wire: MUTV The Daily Cardinal baseball? Shir Bloch ‘Becky is going to listen to us Pandemic Waste Alexa Jurado today’: BIPOC Coalition, TAA BRONZE Marquette Wire march for racial justice and a Zoe Comerford SILVER Parties Still Happening Joseph Pethan police-free campus Marquette Wire Wat Lee Marquette community, sports Media Milwaukee - legends mourn Kobe Bryant

18 ONCE A YEAR 2021 Best Investigative Audio SILVER SILVER Reporting Best News Story Single Joe Schultz Tyler Peters GOLD or Ongoing WRST-FM Randi Haseman Beck Salgado GOLD Week In Review April 24, 2020 Marquette Wire: MUTV Marquette Wire Nick Galle Esports MUPD’s silence after crimes Kelli Arseneau (No bronze awarded) seen as concerning Dan Avington BRONZE Roy Bowler Jack Phillips SILVER Video Marquette Wire: MUR Marquette Wire: MUTV Matthew Harte Best News Story Single Covid Across America or Ongoing A New Lacrosse Era Marquette Wire GOLD University faces economic Best Newscast SILVER Nick Galle fallout GOLD Mazie Baldus Aimee Galaszewski The Badger Report Staff Marquette Wire: MUR Dan Avington BRONZE Tamia Fowlkes COVID & OZZI Roy Bowler Lelah Byron Sally Young Joseph Beaird Marquette Wire The Badger Report, BRONZE Marquette Wire: MUTV Faculty concerns amid layoffs UW Madison Patrick Caine Covid Across America WRST-FM The Badger Report Newscast Best Editorial or Bald Eagles Return SILVER Commentary SILVER Terese Radke GOLD The Badger Report Staff Allison Beebe Best Feature Story Media Milwaukee - GOLD Nathan Denzin Media Milwaukee - University of UW-Milwaukee Andrew Haese Sophia Madore Wisconsin-Milwaukee Early Voting Going Strong WRST-FM The Badger Report, UW Madison The Dawn of COVID-19 in Cape in Milwaukee A Kwick Pandemic The Badger Report Newscast Town: A Backpacker’s Account BRONZE of Travel During the Pandemic BRONZE SILVER Terese Radke Isabel Tuisl Patrick Caine Media Milwaukee - SILVER Rickiya Hatch WRST-FM UW-Milwaukee The Daily Cardinal Kaylee Staral History of KFIZ Local Shops Make the Most of Editorial Board Vanessa Rivera The Daily Cardinal Small Business Saturday BRONZE M’Layo Sago Cardinal View: What did Cal Gessner you expect? Jalen Dixon Best Feature Story WRST-FM GOLD Marquette Wire: MUTV Marquette Now, 02/12/2020 BRONZE Learning is Hard Richa Karmarkar Media Milwaukee - Marquette Wire Editorial Board Best Program, Documentary Best Sports Story UW-Milwaukee Marquette Wire or Special (No gold awarded) “Voces de la Frontera” Brings Time is running out GOLD Election Closer to Latinos Terese Radke SILVER Media Milwaukee - Visual Journalism John Leuzzi SILVER UW-Milwaukee Best Still Photograph/Photos Marquette Wire: MUR Jacob Stahl A Much Kneaded Pastime GOLD From Player to Coach Media Milwaukee - Patricia McKnight UW-Milwaukee SILVER Media Milwaukee BRONZE Local Volunteers Spread the Hazel Tang Fulfill the Dream Grayson Sewell Joy in Milwaukee UW Madison School of Journalism Media Milwaukee - University of and Mass Communication SILVER Wisconsin-Milwaukee BRONZE Blind Spot Brian Huynh Friends Get Out for Some Lelah Byron Curb magazine Fresh Air and ‘Frolfing’ Sam Arco BRONZE Photo series by Brian Huynh Marquette Wire: MUTV Molly Nelson Best Podcast Marquette’s Melodic Secret Media Milwaukee - BRONZE GOLD UW-Milwaukee Denisse Hernandez Nathan Denzin Best Sports Story Local Food Pantry Becomes Mount Mary University UW Madison School of Journalism GOLD Light of Hope Arches and Mass Communication Zoe Comerford The Meaning of Black Isolated: Our Coronavirus Story Marquette Wire: MUTV Lives Matter Life Without Markus

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 19 Online Leslie Chavez Best Use of Multimedia Allyson Gebauer GOLD Denisse Hernandez Media Milwaukee staff Mount Mary University Arches Media Milwaukee Archesnews.com Rising Waters SILVER SILVER Marquette Wire Staff Elizabeth Marie Lang Oreamuno Marquette Wire UW Madison School of Journalism Marquettewire.org and Mass Communication Covida: The Coronavirus in BRONZE Costa Rica 2020 Curb Pause team Curb Magazine BRONZE Curb Pause website Spotlight on leadership Brenda Nelson Davis Leslie Chavez Best Local News or Feature Website Leaders are people who achieve the unexpected and have the Mount Mary University Arches GOLD vision and integrity to an impact that matters in their UW Madison School of organizations and their communities. Stories from the Sisters: Sister Joanne Poehlman Journalism and Mass Communication Staff Deloitte is proud to recognize the reipients of the Milwaukee UW Madison School of Journalism Press Club’s 2021 Gridiron Awards. Best Website Design GOLD and Mass Communication 2020 in 20-20 www.deloitte.com Quinn Clark Emily Cabaltera © 2021 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.

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20 ONCE A YEAR 2021 SILVER Colectivo Coffee Workers Try to BRONZE Best Investigative Media Milwaukee staff Unionize During Pandemic Jessica Gatzow Reporting Media Milwaukee - University of Media Milwaukee - University of GOLD Wisconsin-Milwaukee SILVER Wisconsin-Milwaukee Media Milwaukee Staff Media Milwaukee Jay Stahl Fighting for Climate Change Media Milwaukee UWM Post Justice on Milwaukee’s North Side Rising Waters (No bronze awarded) How Curd Queen Has the Internet Cheesin’ Again Best Soft Feature Story (No silver or bronze awarded) Best Blog (No gold awarded) GOLD BRONZE Best Editorial or Brenda Nelson-Davis Natallie St. Onge SILVER Commentary Mount Mary University Arches Marquette Wire Patricia McKnight GOLD COVID Diaries President Lovell’s son withdraws Media Milwaukee Staff Aminah Beg after posting racist, sexist posts Media Milwaukee Marquette Wire SILVER Into the Bayou The Privilege of Political Apathy Media Milwaukee Staff Best Hard Feature Story Media Milwaukee GOLD BRONZE SILVER Vanishing Island John Quinnies Adrian Hurd Zachary Semancik Destiny DeVooght Media Milwaukee - University of UWM Post BRONZE Matthew Hollendonner Wisconsin-Milwaukee Thank You Kobe Aspen Ramos Hannah Borchert ‘The Pandemic Helped Me Find Marquette Wire Taylor Wietzke My Purpose’: Black Women- BRONZE COVID-19 BLOG: Everything Media Milwaukee Owned Businesses Persevere Everett Eaton happens for a reason Into the Night in 2020 UWM Post A Review of My Mental State Best News Story SILVER During the Election GOLD Benjamin Wells John Quinnies Natallie St. Onge Media Milwaukee - University of Marquette Wire Wisconsin-Milwaukee Democracy in Darkness

IN MEMORIAM Donna Frake, Lake Country Milwaukee Press Club Publications/Now, May 22, 2020 Laurel Walker, Waukesha Board of Governors Freeman, Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Sentinel, July 17, 2020 OFFICERS Katrina Cravy Maryann Lazarski Katrina Cravy, Inc. Milwaukee PBS Martin Hintz, Milwaukee Sentinel, President Irish American Post, September Corri Hess 20, 2020 Wisconsin Public Radio LaToya Dennis Kathy Mykleby WUWM Milwaukee’s NPR Retired, WISN-TV Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal President-Elect Sentinel, December 14, 2020 James B. Nelson Katharine Foley EX-OFFICIO BOARD Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Kane Communications Group MEMBERS Past President Bud Lea, Milwaukee Sentinel, January 20, 2021 Secretary Elizabeth Hummitzsch Gene Mueller Mueller Communications, LLC 620 WTMJ Radio Fraser Engerman Dean Jensen, Milwaukee Sentinel, Walgreens Co. Steve Jagler MPC Endowment, Ltd. February 17, 2021 Treasurer Kane Communications Group Joel Dresang Landaas & Company Bill Sanders, The Milwaukee H. Carl Mueller Journal, February 27, 2021 Mueller Communications, LLC Mark Kass Milwaukee Business Journal Past Presidents DIRECTORS Council Chairman Charles Benson Marilyn Krause Kathy Mykleby Today’s TMJ4 Krause Communications Retired, WISN-TV Executive Director Joette Richards

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 21 2021 Press Club Members

ASSOCIATE Laughlin Constable Gary Porter Jessie Opoien Tammy Belton-Davis Julie Embling Sue Riordan Tiffany Pua Jeff Bentoff Holly Haseley, APR Raquel Rutledge Joseph Radske Mary Bolich Brian Knox Louis Saldivar Miguel Ramirez Paula Brookmire Kris Naidl, APR Alison Sherwood Chris Raymond Janice Burch Kathryn Whitlock, APR Randy Sprecher Erin Richards

Faithe Colas Crocker Stephenson Rachel Rohr UW-Milwaukee Katrina Cravy Genaro Armas Dave Umhoefer Rich Rovito Christine Czernejewski Michelle Johnson Laurie Van Dyke Jonathon Sadowski Sarah Deering Tom Luljak Robert Wills Thomas Saler Joel Dresang Howie Magner David Zach Steve Scaffidi Fraser Engerman John Schumacher Small Daniel Fettig JOURNALIST Ronald Smith Anne Marie Finley Vertz Marketing Daniel Acker George Stanley Kenneth Fisher Leena Asuma Kurt Adams Nyesha Stone Kyle Geissler Cherie Barbian Jonathan Adler Peter Sullivan Kirsten Grimes Michael Holzbauer Beth Alcazar Tim Vetscher Barbara Haig Riva Treasure Lindsey Anderson Michelle Vetterkind Megan Holbrook Tim Vertz James Angeli Kent Wainscott Elizabeth Hummitzsch Charles Benson Ken Wangler Ron Irwin We Energies Jared Blohm Kelly Welke Jeff Jones Trisha Bournelis Todd Bragstad Sandy Wysocki Caryn Kaufman Brendan Conway Jason Braun Pamela Kobielus Amy Jahns Cathy Breitenbucher MEDIA ACADEMIC Marilyn Krause Brian Manthey Erin Caughey Camila Guarda James LaBelle Alison Trouy Ed Combs Pat Hastings Jim Locatelli Tyler Dallmann Andi Sciacca Jody Lowe HONORARY Thomas Daykin Mark Zoromski Matt McCoy Frank Aukofer LaToya Dennis Lindsey McKee Jennifer Bartolotta Carla Dickmann RETIRED Patrick McSweeney John Cary Marc Eisen Douglas Armstrong Katie Newcomb Gary D’Amato Terrence Falk David Begel David Niles John Fauber Louis Fortis Marta Bender Mary Reinke Peter Feigin Lauren Fuhrmann Mary Fran Cahill Lori Richards Peter Fox Erik Gunn Sharon Cook Sam Roecker Lawrence Frazin Corri Hess Robert Dye Adam Schemm Kathleen Gallagher Diane Irving Paul Hayes Bob Spindell Tess Gallun Lynda Jackson Conyers Tom Heinen Susie Stein Jill Geisler Dan Jones Kent Lowry Stacy Vogel Davis Craig Gilbert Frank Juarez Mary Jo McDonald Berrouane Zakaria Mike Gousha Mark Kass Richard Pieper Chris Zills John Gurda Yvonne Kemp Bunny Raasch-Hooten Margo Huston James Kust Laura Ricci COLLEGE Mark Johnson Kira Lafond Kenneth Roesslein Amy Ammen Vyto Kapocius Maryann Lazarski Anne Schwartz Jesus Rivera Meg Kissinger Cliff Leppke Jeff Smoller Mary Knudsen Ashley Luthern Roger Stafford CORPORATE Captain James Lovell Lee Matz David M. Vogel Kane Communications Group Stephen Marcus John Mayers John J. Ward Justyce Blankenship Shirley Marine Kevin Michalowski William Ward Katharine Foley Carl Mueller Raven Moerchen Wayne Youngquist Hofer Sharon Murphy Gene Mueller Steve Jagler Kathleen Mykleby Dana Munro SPOUSE/PARTNER Kimberly Kane Jim Peck Jim Nelson Herbert Hentzen Julie Pedretti Andrew Olson

22 ONCE A YEAR 2021 Press Club Honors

HALL OF FAME 1987 1995 Bill Sanders 1980 Art Olszyk Marta Bender Joseph Savage Louise Cattoi Aileen Ryan Don Froehlich Melodie Wilson Walter J. Damm Harry Sonneborn Paul Hayes Posthumous class Richard S. Davis John Thompson Alex Thien Alan Gass Arville Schaleben Robert Wells Robert Witas Harvey W. Schwandner Don Richards 1988 1996 Ray Grody 1981 Marvin H. Creager Tom Barber Rod Van Every Jack E. Krueger Cyrus F. Rice Jay Joslyn 2001 Lucius W. Nieman Ruth A. Wilson Robert O’Meara Frank Aukofer General Rufus King Henry A. Youmans, Jr. Walter Morrison Ethel Gintoft Walter G. Wegner Carl Zimmermann Bunny Raasch Loren Osman 1982 1989 1997 Ken Roesslein Woods O. Dreyfus Trueman E. Farris, Jr. Richard Bauer Bill Taylor Charles A. LaForce J. Donald Ferguson John Patrick Hunter Posthumous class Roger W. LeGrand D. Raymond Kenny Charles (Chuck) Johnson Cal Holm Jeremiah L. O’Sullivan Otto F. Schlaak Don Parcher Russ Lynch Billy Sixty Ellen G. M. Wilson Joe Shoquist Ralph Schauer 1983 1990 Posthumous class Webster Woodmansee William Carlsen Harriet Cramer Alicia Ann Armstrong 2002 Harry J. Grant Herman Ewald Laurence C. Eklund Warren Bovee Lloyd G. Larson Edna Ferber Frank J. Marasco Colleen (Koky) Dishon Irwin Maier Patt Barnes John McCullough Ed Hinshaw Paul Ringler James J. Colby Jim Schlosser Jo Sandin 1984 1991 1998 Avery Wittenberger Donald B. Abert John W. Ahlhauser David Behrendt Posthumous class Humphrey E. Desmond Larry Clark Richard Bradee Mel Kishner, Leo Kissel Don L. Johnson Gene Cunningham Raymond E. McBride William A. Norris Jessica Knowles John Drilling Marian “Toni” McBride Chase Salmon Osborn George Reedy Lil Kleiman Howard “Buck” Herzog Posthumous class Fred Remick 1985 (Centennial Year) 1992 J. Anthony Josey Journalist of the Century Victor Berger 2003 Wallace Lomoe Richard S. Davis Gene Harrington Stephen Maersch Carl Sandburg Ruane Hill Elliott Maraniss The Story of the Century Russ Winnie Jean Otto Mary Beth Murphy Era Neil Shively 1999 Bruce Nason Semi-Sacred Cat Award Lois Blinkhorn Harold Schwartz 1993 Jack DuBlon Lou Chapman Dorothy Witte Austin H. Russell Austin Posthumous class Sherman Gessert Edwin Bayley Mel Ellis Ray Doherty Tom Hopper Lindsay Hoben Ione Quinby Griggs Bob Heiss Jim Irwin Eldon Knoche Dion Henderson Laurie Van Dyke George Pitrof Robert J. Riordan Bob Wills Posthumous class Beulah Donohue Howard Pollock 1994 1986 Robert H. Dumke Jay Reed Edna Dunlop Sandy Cota Harry Hill Earl Gillespie Howard Fibich Perry C. Hill 2004 James M. Johnston George Koshollek Edward K. Thompson Bernice Buresh Richard H. Leonard Wade H. Mosby Bud Lea Ross A. Lewis Hank Stoddard 2000 George Lockwood Margo Huston Mike McCormick Bill Janz Jim Spaulding

MILWAUKEE PRESS CLUB 23 Posthumous class 2009 Vince O’Hern Larry Meiller Walter L. Jones Barbara Dembski Jim Paschke Kathy Mykleby Stan Kalish William Meyer Neil D. Rosenberg Dan Shelley Walter Monfried Andy Potos Rod Synnes Posthumous class Harry Pease Greg Stanford Posthumous class Tim Cuprisin Bob Wolf Jerry Taff Bill Behling 2005 Posthumous class Erwin Gebhard Constance Daniell KNIGHTS OF BOHEMIA Dale Hofmann David Doege 2015 Dave Baldwin Beth Slocum Mildred Freese Mary Fran Cahill Ben Barkin Keith Spore Al Kalmbach Martin Kaiser Joe & Jennifer Bartolotta Sprague Vonier Gerald Kloss Donald Baumgartner 2010 Patricia O’Flynn Pattillo Rosemary Bischoff Posthumous class Mike Drew Mark Zoromski Harry W. Bolens Jim Auer Gordon Hinkley Alonzo Burt Jack Orton Posthumous class Elisabeth “Ello” Brink John Cary Jim Peck Jim Cullen George Comte Willie G. Davidson Jerry Resler Scott Feldmeyer Thomas Smith Fr. Frank Drabinowicz Sue Ryon Jackie Loohauis-Bennett Mattiebelle Woods Bruce Estlund Posthumous class 2006 2016 Peter Feigin Don Dooley Sheldon S. Glass James Clifford Richard Kienitz Bob Bach Quincy Dadisman Michael Juley George Gravin Marie Jacque Schanen John Gurda Jack Kole William F. Schanen Jr. Ted Knap Ray Lapine Jim Miklaszewski Herbert J. Hansen Charles Hanson James Slocum 2011 Roseann St. Aubin Roger Stafford John B. Torinus Jr. Gerry W. Hazelton Willie Davis Alex J. Horlick Posthumous class Lance J. Herdegen Posthumous class Wm. Horlick Jr. Gerry Hinkley Mike Miller James W. Foley Vyto Kapocius Don Olesen Epluribus C. Reynolds Don Walker John Wells Joanne Williams Joseph J. Krueger 2017 Posthumous class Major Wm. Mitchell Lewis 2007 Mike Anderson Fran Bauer Vernon J. Biever Capt. James A. Lovell Roger Jaynes Mike Gousha Huetta “Scotty” Manion Rosemary Gernette Mikel Holt T. Lee Hughes Steve Marcus 2012 Garry D. Howard Shirley Marine Steve Olszyk Damien Jaques Dan Patrinos Cary Edwards H. Carl Mueller Jill Geisler Myra Sanchick Fred Pabst Posthumous class Dean Jensen Posthumous class Gustav Pabst Howard Gernette Betty Quadracci Bob Riepenhoff Julie Pedretti Dennis Getto Keta Steebs Eric Von Vel Phillips Dale Guldan Hyman Popuch Posthumous class Gordon MacQuarrie Helen Ratzsch Harry T. Kemp 2018 Leonard Sykes Robert Riordan Richard Wheeler Elizabeth Brenner John Fennell William Schuchardt 2008 Mike Jacobs Albert A. Silverman Vern Arendt 2013 Marilyn Krause Randal Sprecher Clayborn Benson Tom Brochhausen Carole Meekins John Stollenwerk Whitney Gould Daniel P. Hanley Jr. Stuart Wilk Stephen Swedish Paul Joseph Jayne Jeffery Gene Mueller Ralph Tillema Jim McLoone Posthumous class Bob Reitman Edwin C. Uihlein Nathan Conyers Paul Salsini David Zweifel Robert A. Uihlein Jr. Russ Haase Debra Usinger Posthumous class Posthumous class Duane Gay Fritz Usinger Louvenia Johnson 2019 Bruce Gill Sylvester B. Way Wilmott Ragsdale Alan J. Borsuk James Pluta James E. Webb Meg Kissinger Ray Taylor Michael S. Wolke 2014 Everett L. Marshburn Lynise Weeks Frank P. Zeidler Kathleen Dunn Sharon McGowan Eugene Kane

24 ONCE A YEAR 2021 KNIGHTS OF THE James B. Nelson 2000 David Protess 1984 Paul E. Hassett GOLDEN QUILL David Niles and his Northwestern 1985 Ben Marcus and Frank Aukofer Ken Roesslein investigative Stephen H. Marcus Charles O. Benson Roseann St. Aubin reporting students 1986 Charles McNeer Gary D’Amato Beth Slocum 2001 1987 August Derleth Roger Stafford 2002 Paul Gigot John Fauber Mary Van de Kamp Nohl 2003 Brooke Gladstone 1988 T. Michael Brophy Kathleen Gallagher Laurie Van Dyke 2004 Jim Miklaszewski 1989 Mitchell Fromstein Jill Geisler Joanne Williams 2005 William L. Allen 1990 Lindy Infante Craig Gilbert Jon Anne Willow 2006 1991 Les Aspin Margo Huston Wayne Youngquist 2007 Milton Coleman 1992 Howard Fuller Mark Johnson Mark Zoromski 2008 Kimberly Dozier 1993 Jane and Lloyd Pettit Irwin Maier 2009 Frank Deford 1994 Pat Richter, Bonnie John F. Kennedy 2010 Leonard Pitts Jr. Blair and Dan Jansen Meg Kissinger DISTINGUISHED 2011 Bill Kurtis 1995 Allen H. Selig William F. Knowland SERVICE AWARD 2012 1996 Mike Holmgren Richard H. Leonard Steve Jagler 2013 Cokie Roberts 1997 Jacquelyn Mitchard Frank J. Marasco Sr. Vyto Kapocius 2014 Jonathan Alter 1998 Janine Geske John McCullough David Niles 2015 Ann Compton 1999 Roger Fitzsimonds Bob McGinn Lori Richards 2016 Marty Baron 2000 Andreas Delfs Sharon M. Murphy Kenneth Roesslein 2017 David Fahrenthold 2001 Russell Bowman, Kathy Mykleby Roger Stafford 2018 Jodi Kantor Christopher Jean H. Otto Tom Traband and Megan Twohey Goldsmith, Gary Porter 2019 Jack Pelisek Jay Reed 2021 Gloria Borger 2002 Tom Crean, SACRED CAT George E. Reedy Bruce Pearl 1973 Susan J. Riordan 2004 Dr. Zorba Paster, 1974 Helen Thomas Raquel Rutledge HEADLINER AWARDS Tom Clark 1975 Lou Saldivar 1957 Harold S. Vincent 2005 Michael Cudahy 1976 Nicholas von 1958 George F. Kasten 2006 Bob Reitman, Hoffman Arville Schaleben 1959 Edmund Fitzgerald Sister Joel Read 1977 Irv Kupcinet Harvey Schwandner 1960 S. Lloyd Niemeyer 2007 Sheldon Lubar 1978 Louis Rukeyser James Schlosser 1961 Eliot Fitch 2008 , 1979 Reuven Frank Alison Sherwood 1962 Albert S. Puelicher Joseph Zilber 1980 Tom Snyder Bill Sixty Sr. 1963 Irwin Maier 2009 Michael Grebe, 1981 Malcolm Forbes Crocker Stephenson 1964 Leo Tiefenthaler Gwen Jackson 1982 Max Robinson Laurie Van Dyke 1965 Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. 2010 Will Allen, 1983 Linda Ellerbee Walter “Chick” Wegner 1966 Walter H. Bender Kitty Brennan 1984 60 Minutes Bob Wills 1967 Howard J. Tobin 2011 Sue Dragisic, 1985 Gene Siskel Melodie J. Wilson 1968 George A. Parkinson Martin Kaiser and Roger Ebert Mike Gousha 1969 James A. Lovell 2012 Sue Black, John Cary 1986 Tom Wicker Jim Peck 1970 Hazel Maxwell 2013 Barry Alvarez 1987 Jim Lehrer Dave Umhoefer and Harold Morgan 2014 Michael Pink, and Robert MacNeil 1971 Mrs. Harry Lynde Stephen Roell 1988 Ted Turner Bradley and Donald 2015 Ricardo Diaz, 1989 George N. Gillett PAST PRESIDENTS C. Slichter Linda Mellowes 1990 Maria Jimena Duzan COUNCIL 1972 Norman N. Gill 2016 Ted Kellner, 1991 LaToya Dennis 1973 Francis E. Ferguson Hannah Rosenthal 1992 Lynn Sherr Bob Dye 1974 Rev. John P. 2017 Howard Fuller PhD, 1993 Kevin Fischer Raynor, S.J. Carmen Pitre 1994 Mark Russell Tom Heinen 1975 Arnold D. K. Mason 2018 Gary Grunau, 1995 Fred Graham Ron Irwin 1976 Robert V. Krikorian Juli Kaufmann 1996 Bob Vito Steve Jagler 1977 Warren P. Knowles 2019 Martin J. Schreiber, 1997 Jayne Jeffrey 1978 Harry C. Bockel Mary Lou Young 1998 Matt Lauer Mark Kass 1979 Allen H Selig 2021 John W. Daniels, Jr., 1999 Michael Isikoff Marilyn Krause 1980 Catherine B. Cleary Bob & Susan Mikulay Kay Magowan 1981 Albert A. Silverman Gene Mueller 1982 Max Karl Kathy Mykleby 1983 Ben Barkin

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