Every year, the Milwaukee Press Club gives out the Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism awards, honoring press outlets across the state for writing, design and more. This year, Milwaukee Magazine was won 12 awards, including Best Personal Profile, Best Overall Design and Best Investigative Story. We’re proud to have been honored by the press club. You can read our award-winning stories below.
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1. Of Fleets and Farms (GOLD: Best Long Soft Feature Story)
JULY 2022 | BY ARCHER PARQUETTE
The Real Story Behind Mills Fleet Farm and Blain’s Farm & Fleet – exploring, debunking and celebrating the long history of two retail icons of rural Wisconsin.
2. The Last Frame (GOLD: Best Short Soft Feature Story)
JULY 2022 | BY TEA KRULOS
Finality was rolling down the lanes at Falcon Bowl during the last league night of 2022.
3. The Last Fisherman of Washington Island (GOLD: Best Photo Essay or Series)
JUNE 2022 | PHOTOS BY MATT LUDTKE
Ken Koyen pilots out into the waters of Death’s Door in search of a seemingly ever-waning catch.
4. Milwaukee Magazine (GOLD: Best Overall Design)
2022 | DESIGN BY CHELSEA MAMEROW, SUSAN EVENSON, BIANCA CABRAL, KRISTEN BOWKER, PAUL JOHN HIGGINS
5. Bobby (SILVER: Best Personal Profile)
DECEMBER 2022 | BY ARCHER PARQUETTE
How a tough-luck kid from Little Rock became an NBA champion and the ‘mayor of Milwaukee’
6. A Vision Realized (SILVER: Best Long Soft Feature Story)
MAY 2022 | BY RICH ROVITO
In an exclusive interview, Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava shares his thoughts on how MAM’s Quadracci Pavilion has become a symbol of the city in just two decades.
7. Take This Job and Shove It (SILVER: Best Business Story or Series)
MARCH 2021 | BY RICH ROVITO
Wisconsinites quit their jobs in record numbers last year. Since the pandemic set in, many Wisconsin workers – particularly women – are leaving for greener pastures.
8. Wanna Buy a Famous Tugboat? (SILVER: Best Online Soft Feature Story)
SEPT. 14 2022 | BY TEA KRULOS
9. Descension: Crisis at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital (BRONZE: Best Investigative Story or Series)
DEC. 27 2022 | BY ELLY FISHMAN
Dozens of doctors, nurses and surgeons are leaving Ascension’s East Side hospital, many of them saying it is an unsafe environment for their patients. A look inside the chaos in what had been one of Milwaukee’s premier hospitals.
10. This Beloved Milwaukee County Parks Golf Course Won’t Open This Year (BRONZE: Best Sports Story)
MAY 18 2022 | BY RICH ROVITO
11. What It Was Like to Attend the Bowling World Championship in Tosa (BRONZE: Best Online Sports Story)
MARCH 14 2022 | BY RICH ROVITO
Bowling fans who packed Bowlero Wauwatosa on Sunday for the Professional Bowlers Association’s World Championship certainly got their money’s worth as a stacked field of competitors performing at the top of their games took to the lanes.
12. How Brewers Players Are Helping With Urban Reforestation (BRONZE: Best Online Soft Feature Story)
MAY 23, 2022 | BY RICH ROVITO
A crew from the Milwaukee Brewers – and even a player from an opposing team – gathered to work in the dirt over the weekend, but this time they weren’t on a baseball diamond. Instead, the group came together on Saturday to plant fruit trees at the Victory Garden Urban Farm in the Harambee neighborhood in Milwaukee’s Central City.
