GOLD: The Man by the River
BY DAN SIMMONS
The news reports cast Geoffrey Graff as “the bunker guy,” a crazy, gun-toting isolationist, who dug an underground home in a backwater of the city. The reality is more complicated.
★ WRITING: Best Long Hard Feature Story
GOLD: Reporting Live from the Street
BY TEA KRULOS
Much of what we learned during the unrest in Kenosha came from the work of tireless “citizen journalists” who caught the deadly shootings on video.
★ WRITING: Best Short Hard Feature Story
GOLD: A Family Affair
BY JAKE MALOOLEY
Milwaukee has become the NBA’s City of Brotherly Love. Could sibling bonds finally push the team to their first championship since 1971?
★ WRITING: Best Sports Story
GOLD: Organizing for Apocalypse Now
BY JAKE MALOOLEY
Lang and the organization she founded, Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, are working tirelessly to empower the city’s Black residents.
★ WRITING: Best Personal Profile
GOLD: MilwaukeeMag.com
BY PAUL HIGGINS, EVAN PRIMAKOW, KATIE WILLIAMS, CAROLE NICKSIN, ALLISON GARCIA AND CHRIS DROSNER
In 2020, we relaunched milwaukeemag.com to create a better user experience for our readers.
★ ONLINE: Best Website Design
GOLD: How Waukesha’s Gold Medalist Is Spending Her Summer Without Olympics
BY RICH ROVITO
Gwen Jorgensen ran away with the gold in 2016. She was planning on competing in the 2020 Olympics too, but that will have to wait.
★ ONLINE: Best Sports story
SILVER: Milwaukee’s Protest Movement
BY RICH ROVITO
Milwaukee’s protesters aren’t asking for change, they’re demanding it.
★ WRITING: Best Multi-Story Coverage of a Single Feature Topic or Event
SILVER: This Nashotah Native Ran Her First-Ever Marathon and Qualified for the Olympics. Now, She Waits.
BY RICH ROVITO
Molly Seidel made a big impression at the Olympic Trials. Now she has to wait another year to compete in the Olympics.
★ WRITING: Best Sports Story
SILVER: Ruth
BY MARY LOUISE SCHUMACHER
Her stewardship of the arts has put Sheboygan on the international art map, just as her family did for the city’s industry.
★ WRITING: Best Personal Profile
SILVER: Milkmen Bring Home the Championship For Milwaukee
BY RICH ROVITO
The Milwaukee Milkmen completed a magical one-season turnaround by capturing the American Association championship Thursday night with a 4-1 win over the Sioux Falls Canaries in South Dakota.
★ ONLINE: Best Sports Story (Online)
BRONZE: This is the Revolution
BY RICH ROVITO
The lives of three leaders of Milwaukee’s new protest movement have prepared them for this battle for equity and racial justice.
★ WRITING: Best Personal Profile
BRONZE: How a Wisconsin Senator Helped Establish Earth Day 50 Years Ago
BY RICH ROVITO
On the eve of the first Earth Day, Gaylord Nelson delivered an enduringly powerful speech in Milwaukee that still resonates 50 years later.
★ ONLINE: Best Soft Feature Story
