Illustration by Jason Greenberg. When a morning fire roared through Racine’s Mitchell Elementary School in late February, TV news trucks and report...

Illustration by Leslie Herman Chaotic newsrooms have little in common with the staid halls of academia, where deadlines arrive semester by semester, no...

Illustration by Chris Whetzel The college students in my journalism classes do not watch television news. Start a discussion about local-news cont...

 This article originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of Milwaukee Magazine.  * Whispered conspiracy theories nipped at the heels of January&...

  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel may be struggling along with the rest of the media industry, but there’s one bright spot: sports coverage – more specific...

Herb Zien, a local digital entrepreneur, is a longtime listener of WHAD, Milwaukee’s outlet for Wisconsin Public Radio. But he’s canceled his membership, miffed...

 Four years ago, WTMJ Channel 4 planted a TV camera in the middle of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newsroom. It was supposed to begin a new era for the pa...

  What do you do when you don’t like how you’re covered in the media? Get your own show. Perhaps no government organization gets covered more cynical...

Gay journalism has struggled in this city, but the newest entry comes with insider clout and a mainstream pedigree. Launched late in 2009, the Wisconsin Gazett...

Everything old is new again. The departure of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel TV/radio columnist Tim Cuprisin in an August 2009 buyout left the newspaper with a gapi...