2022 has been a year of grand achievements and gold awards.
Journalism
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CBS sports reporter Sherree Burruss ’12 provides up-close access to your favorite teams.
Isthmus returns to the racks after shutting down during the pandemic.
UW professor Young Mie Kim uncovers deceptive political ads on social media.
On The Branch, Dina Kraft ’93 delves into stories of Israeli/Palestinian friendship.
Manu Raju ’02 rises to CNN’s chief congressional correspondent at a turbulent time for politics and media.
Young reporters use new strategies to bring local news back from the brink.
Known as a colorful chronicler of counterculture figures, Larry Sloman MS’72 is finding his direction home as a singer-songwriter.
Journalist Peter Greenberg ’72 crisscrosses the globe to dig up inside info on the world’s largest industry.
Investigative journalist Scott Carney MA’04 does — in his own way.
An adventurous summer road trip turned the UW’s first female engineering grad, Emily Hahn ’26, into one of America’s most storied travel writers.
Sharing what’s on your mind — and welcoming the viewpoints of others on contentious issues — is a campus hallmark that could inform the wider world.
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In 2017, the Badgers lost just one football game. In 1968, they couldn’t win one.
It’s almost impossible to believe in these days of annual bowl game appearances, but the UW once suffered through 23 straight winless games — 22 losses and…
An aspiring journalist chooses an unexpected stop on his career path: his hometown newspaper.
Phil Johnston ’94 is back with Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2.
Charlie Berens ’09 leans into his Badger State roots — and accent — to deliver the Manitowoc Minute, a comedic take on the news.
Rachel Schultz
Ten years after Cynthia Hornig ’91 and her friend Jen Jones left their jobs in 2001 to start a public-relations agency in New York City, they launched a website to fill a critical need. Women You Should Know features a collection of…
From scientific marvels to meaningful mementos, items found in the offices of UW professors help tell their stories.
Courtesy of John Hanc
To write a book proposal on a woman known as the Marathon Goddess, John Hanc MA’83, a runner himself, spent a weekend shadowing Julie Weiss in Los Angeles — even running part of the 2017 LA marathon at her side. Weiss…
As a foreign correspondent in Germany, Louis Lochner 1909 chronicled the rise of the Third Reich and helped Americans understand how Adolf Hitler amassed power.
Andy Clayton, New York Daily News
Six months after graduating, Eric Barrow ’93 was knocking around Tokyo, brushing up on his Japanese, and considering a career in international relations when the Wisconsin football team rolled into town for a big game at the…
For 80 years, the Wisconsin Alumni Association has honored exceptional alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards. Early recipients include actor Fredric March ’20 of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fame and Helen C. White PhD’24, the beloved English professor whose name now graces College Library. More recently, alumni such as Earth…
ESPN’s Andy Katz ’90 feels the pull of the classroom.
She uses virtual reality to tell some of the world's toughest — and most important — stories.
I very much enjoyed the piece on Phil Rosenthal [“Staying Power,” Fall 2015]. In particular, I cheered the fact that “…after more than thirty years in the newspaper business,” he had covered grizzly crime scenes and survived. Those bears are very dangerous!
Lona Morris Jupiter ’56 San Francisco, California…
For Anna Therese Day ’10, going the freelance route in pursuit of a journalism career wasn’t so much a choice as it was a calling.
Think that world hunger can’t be overcome? Bettina Luescher begs to differ.
Emily Friedman has a front-row seat to history as an ABC News digital reporter covering Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.