News and Events
2012
National Award for PantherVision
UWM PantherVision is being honored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) as one of the nation’s best collegiate television newscasts.
PantherVision was named a national finalist as “Best All-Around Television Newscast” in SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards. PantherVision reporters were also chosen as national finalists in the Television In-Depth Reporting category.
The awards come on the heels of UWM PantherVision winning a regional Emmy in the best newscast category, as well as an Edward E. Murrow award for best newscast by the Northwest Broadcast News Association, which accepts entries from six states. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association also chose PantherVision as best newscast in its statewide competition.
The SPJ Mark of Excellence awards are the first national honors for UWM PantherVision. The best newscast category is particularly demanding – in most competitions, entrants chose their best newscast and submit it. In the SPJ competition, however, entrants are required to submit newscasts from each of three dates chosen by the Mark of Excellence Award committee.
UWM PantherVision is a half hour television newscast produced by students studying broadcast journalism in the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies. Students in the department’s television news reporting class are the reporters, photojournalists, and anchors. Students in the department’s television news management class are the newscast producers, assignment editors, and managers. Both classes are taught by senior lecturer Mark Zoromski.
UWM Journalism Students and Media Milwaukee Honored
UW-Milwaukee journalism students captured more than a dozen awards for multimedia reporting and writing in regional contests, including an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best Independent Online Student Publication for Media Milwaukee, the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies’ news site.
JAMS student Michael Meidenbauer placed first in SPJ’s Online News Reporting category for his multimedia stories about Shorewood teachers grappling with the end of collective bargaining in Wisconsin. Kevin Meagher won a first-place sports writing award for “Fight Club,” his multimedia profile of an iconic Milwaukee boxer who welcomes city kids to his gym. Andy Ambrosius’ coverage of young professionals struggling to create a Milwaukee fashion scene won a feature-writing award.
Writing for the UWM Post, students Zachary Brooke, John Parnon and Steve Garrison won an array of reporting and editorial writing awards for their coverage of turmoil in the UWM Student Association.
The Milwaukee Press Club recognized JAMS student Katie Milella for her in-depth profile of older Milwaukeeans looking for work during the economic downturn. Jessica Fedenia won for a feature story on local seniors finding love through technology. Student Lauren Groh’s examination of changing photography in the digital age won an award for website design.
In many categories, UW-Milwaukee student work topped entries from Marquette University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Minnesota in regional multimedia reporting and writing contests.
PantherVision Cited for Excellence
Broadcast journalism students once again dominated regional competitions for excellence in collegiate journalism. After winning an Emmy last fall for Best Collegiate Newscast, UWM PantherVision was named "best newscast" by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the Northwest Broadcast News Association. PantherVision reporters also won numerous awards for news and investigative reporting, and the Broadcast Club @ UWM was honored as best public affairs show by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.
Click here for a complete list of broadcast awards.
Milton Coleman Visit
Milton Coleman grew up in a Milwaukee housing project. A $128 scholarship led him to UW-Milwaukee. He's now senior editor at The Washington Post and the first UWM Foundation Alumni Fellow. Coleman visited with journalism students this semester and shared how "that little scholarship opened up a whole new world." A Conversation with Milton Coleman (YouTube video).
2011
Emmy nominations for PantherVision
UWM PantherVision, a television newscast produced by JAMS broadcast journalism students, has been honored with three regional Emmy nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
PantherVision received two nominations in the coveted best newscast category, as well as a nomination in the general news story category.
The Emmys are the highest awards given in television. Regional competition includes Midwest journalism schools such as Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Notre Dame, DePaul University, and Columbia College. Winners will be announced on November 6th at the 2011 Emmy Ceremony in Chicago.
A list of the students who were nominated is below. The complete list of Emmy nominations can be found at: http://www.chicagoemmyonline.org/
Best Television Newscast
UWM PantherVision: Budget Battle
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Lyndsay Spa, Sean Willey, Producers; Rashidah Butler, Chuck Engel, Ashley Jordan, Ryan Kernen, JP O'Leary, Justin Paul, Brittany Radakovich, Lauren Reimer, Lauren Robertstad, Shakara Robinson, Taylor Thompson, Associate Producers; Kaitlin Sharkey, News Anchor; Antoine Mack, News Anchor; Brandon Smith, Sports Anchor.
UWM PantherVision: 10/25/10 Edition
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Andy Ambrosius, Carlie Kappl, Producers; Adilene Guajardo, Eddie Hamilton, Eric Litsheim, Katie Milella, Jenny Pierron, Xeranda Sanford, Jeff Vieau, Associate Producers; Lauren Reimer, News Anchor; Taylor Thompson, News Anchor.
Best News General Assignment Story
E-mail Investigation
UWM PantherVision
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Taylor Thompson, Reporter
Analyzing TV's newfound status
In their new book, “Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status,” Assistant Professor Michael Z. Newman and Associate Professor Elana Levine look at how television has been changing in the digital age, gaining newfound respectability for its programs and for the devices used to view them. Newman and Levine are critical of this shift, arguing that the rise of television’s status is premised on the same inequitable distinctions of gender and class that previously kept TV low on the cultural hierarchy, favoring shows and technologies that align with upscale and masculine identities.
Tasman photos featured at MAM
Senior Lecturer Marc Tasman is among the artists awarded the prestigious Mary L. Nohl fellowship whose work will be on display. Tasman’s photographic series, "Dark Tourist seeks Lost Galitzianers' Treasure," documents his visit to Poland as an adult grandchild of Jewish Holocaust survivors.
Fellows will exhibit work in the gallerias and a screening will be held in Lubar Auditorium after a panel discussion at 6:15 pm. The panel will consider ways that artists living outside major art centers connect to the larger art world.
National Honor
For Ad Students
Two JMC students have received honorable mention in a national advertising competition. Kristin Birchbauer and Stacy Sheets, students in JMC 524 taught by Joette Rockow, competed against students from 128 schools in the Yellow Pages Advertising Challenge. To see their work, go to: http://www.ypa-academics.org/cc/10hm.html
M.A. Student
Has Top Paper
Graduate student Jing Zhao received the top student paper award at the Chinese Internet Research Conference. Her paper, "Online Competition between Media Corporations and Grassroots Fans?: The Failure of Collaborationist Logic in Mainland China," was presented in May in Washington D.C.
Newman Publishes
Indie Film Book
Assistant Professor Michael Z. Newman’s book Indie: An American Film Culture has been published by Columbia University Press.
For a description of the book, an interview with the author, excerpts, and Newman’s blog, go to:
http://www.cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14464-3/indiehttp://www.cup.columbia.edu/static/newman-interview-indie
http://www.cupblog.org/?p=3468
http://www.cupblog.org/?p=3460
MA Students Have
Three ICA Papers
Three MA students will present research papers at the International Communication Association convention at Boston in late May:
Stacy Blasiola
“Say ‘Cheese!’ Bloggers and Cameras in Wisconsin’s Courtrooms.”
Weiai Xu
“The Behavior of Internet Censorship in China.”
Yoonmo Sang and Jonathan Anderson
“Bloggers’ Libel Liability: A Comparative Analysis of South Korea and the United States.”
New Course on
Documentaries
JMC 116, Journalism, Documentary, and Democracy, will be offered for the first time in summer 2011. The online course is being offered from July 25 to August 20 by Professor Jeff Smith.
The course Facebook page has information and samples of the documentaries students will watch.Media Historian
Speaks at UWM
The transformation of American news since the late nineteenth century will be the topic of a talk on Friday, April 22, at 1 p.m. in Bolton B40.
The Media Studies M.A. program is hosting Professor Kevin Barnhurst of the University of Illinois at Chicago. He will speak on “New Long News and the Ends of U.S. Journalism.”
Barnhurst is the author of Seeing the Newspaper and the co-author of The Form of News: A History. For more information, go to: http://tigger.uic.edu/~kgbcomm/index.htm
Five NBNA Awards
Go to JMC Students
The Northwest Broadcast News Association has given five awards to JMC students at its 2011 conference:
First Place
Best Hard Feature
Haunted Hall
Jeff Vieau and Lindsie Mitchell
First Place
Best Newscast
UWM PantherVision: Campus Clash
Ryan Murray, Kati McCormick, Ryan Schoonover, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Erika Guenther,
Andy Fabitz, Cayla Ganter, Sean McGraw, Tameka Smith, Marc Stefanic, Adi Guajardo, Kyle Warnke, Page Fortier, and D’Andre Dawsey
First Place
Best Photojournalism
Campus Chaos
Ryan Murray and Ryan Schoonover
First Place
Best Series
Protest Coverage
Ryan Murray, Ryan Schoonover, Kati McCormick, Andy Fabitz, Erika Guenther, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Tameka Smith, Cayla Ganter, Marc Stefanic, Sean McGraw, Adi Guajardo, Kyle Warnke, Andy Ambrosius, Eddie Hamilton, Jenny Pierron, Shane Cuccia, Page Fortier, and D’Andre Dawsey
Second Place
Best Website
Media Milwaukee, JMC’s student news site.
JMC Students Win
SPJ Region Awards
JMC students received three regional Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for work in 2010.
The awards were presented on April 9 at the Region 6 SPJ Spring Conference held in Bloomington, Minn. The region includes Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
UWM SPJ chapter officers Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Zach Fowle and John Parnon attended the conference to accept the awards:
First Place
Television In-Depth Reporting-4 Year College/University
UWM PantherVision
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Tuition Protest
Ryan Murray, Ryan Schoonover, Kati McCormick, Andy Fabitz, Erika Guenther, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Tameka Smith, Cayla Ganter, Marc Stefanic, Sean McGraw, Adi Guajardo, Kyle Warnke, Andy Ambrosius, Eddie Hamilton, Jenny Pierron, Shane Cuccia, Page Fortier, and D’Andre Dawsey
Second Place
Television News Photography-4 Year College/University
UWM PantherVision
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Campus Chaos
Ryan Murray and Ryan Schoonover
Second Place
Best Independent Online Student Publication
Media Milwaukee, JMC’s student news site
First-place winners in each category advance to the national round of judging.
All of the Region 6 awards are listed at:
http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1047
Founded in 1909, SPJ supports the free flow of information and journalism education. For more information visit http://www.spj.org
M.A. Colloquia Presentations
Students in the department’s Media Studies M.A. program will make presentations at colloquia in April and May:
Tuesday, April 12, 2-3 p.m. in Merrill 347:
Jing Zhao, “Chinese ‘Decoding’ of American TV Shows in the Age of Media Convergence —A Study of Chinese Fansubbing Culture.”
Aarti Basnyat, “Exploring the Grey Areas of Feminism and Postfeminism in Grey’s Anatomy.”
Jake Rollefson, “‘I am NOT a DJ’: Girl Talk and the Oxymoron of Performed Authenticity.”
Tuesday, May 10, 2-3 p.m. in Merrill 347:
Stacy Blasiola, “Say, ‘Cheese!’ Bloggers and Cameras in Wisconsin’s Courtrooms.”
Weiai Xu, “The Behavior of Internet Censorship in China.”
Yoonmo Sang and Jonathan Anderson, “Bloggers’ Libel Liability: A Comparative Analysis of South Korea and the United States.”
You are invited!
Broadcast Students Win State Journalism Awards
JMC broadcast journalism students won eight awards in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s annual statewide “Student Awards for Excellence” competition.
UWM PantherVision, a weekly television newscast produced by students in the department’s television reporting and news management classes, was named best newscast. The Broadcast Club @ UWM was first in the public affairs category.
The awards were presented at the WBA Student Seminar/Awards Luncheon on March 5, 2011, in Madison. UWM award winners were:
Newscast (TV) First: UWM PantherVision, Kati McCormick, Ryan Murray, Adilene Guajardo, Kyle Warnke, James Stewart, “Campus Clash.”
News Story (TV) First: UWM PantherVision, Tameka Smith, “You Tube Racism.” Second: UWM PantherVision, Ryan Murray, Ryan Schoonover, Tameka Smith, “Campus Chaos.”
Sports Story (TV) First: UWM PantherVision, Kyle Warnke, Eddie Hamilton, “Home Field.” Second: UWM PantherVision, Taylor Thompson, Lauren Robertstad, “Chilly Soccer.”
Public Affairs (TV) First: Broadcast Club @ UWM, Kati McCormick, Matthew Sliker, Jeff Vieau, Lauren Tracz, “Ask the Chancellor.”
New Series/Documentary (TV) Second: UWM PantherVision, Shane Cuccia, Andy Fabitz, Cayla Ganter, Erika Guenther, Kati McCormick, Sean McGraw, Ryan Murray, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Ryan Schoonover, Tameka Smith, Marc Stefanic, Adi Guajardo, Kyle Warnke, Andy Ambrosius, D’Andre Dawsey, Eddie Hamilton, Jenny Pierron, Page Fortier, “Tuition Protest.”
Sports Story (Radio) Second: Media Milwaukee, Antoine Mack, “Bucks Hear The Thunder.”
Students Win State Awards
JMC students won thirteen awards in the collegiate division of the Milwaukee Press Club's 81st Annual Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism competition.
The competition, which was judged by media professionals from press clubs in other states, had ninety-one entries from Wisconsin campuses. The UWM winners are:
- Best Single Feature Story Under 30 Inches
- Second: Media Milwaukee, Mike Peppers. "The Job Journey: Milwaukee College Student Balances Motherhood, Employment Perils."
- Writing: Best Editorial or Commentary
- First: Media Milwaukee, Genevieve Aer. "Dead Tree News is Dead.
- Online Media: Best Innovative Feature
- First: Media Milwaukee, Xeranda Sanford. "Iraq to Wisconsin: When Homecoming is Hard."
- Online Media: Best Web Site Design
- Second: Media Milwaukee, Michael Ray, "Getting Out and Staying Out."
- Photojournalism: Best Photo Gallery or Slide Show
- Second: Media Milwaukee, Matt Sliker. "A Goldin Opportunity."
- Best News Story
- First:UWM PantherVision, Ryan Murray, Ryan Schoonover, Tameka Smith. "Campus Chaos."
- Second: UWM PantherVision, Tameka Smith. "YouTube Racism."
- TV: Best Feature Story
- First:UWM PantherVision, Jeff Vieau, Lindsie Mitchell, "Haunted Hall."
- TV: Best Sports Story
- First: UWM PantherVision, Kyle Warnke, Eddie Hamilton. "Home Field."
- Second: UWM PantherVision, Taylor Thompson, Lauren Robertstad. "Chilly Soccer."
- TV: Best Public Affairs Program
- First: Broadcast Club @ UWM, Kati McCormick,Matthew Sliker,Jeff Vieau,Lauren Tracz. "Ask the Chancellor."
- Second: Broadcast Club @ UWM, Bridgett L. Ridgeway, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Jeff Vieau, Adi Guajardo, Sean Wiley, Matt Sliker. "Study Abroad in Africa."
- Photojournalism: Best Use of Video Storytelling
- First: UWM PantherVision, Ryan Murray,Ryan Schoonover. "Campus Clash."
Media Milwaukee is the department's student-produced, faculty-supervised multi-media news site.
UWM PantherVision is a weekly television newscast produced by students in the department's television reporting and news management classes.
In the Milwaukee Press Club Professional contest, JMC student and WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio intern Andy Ambrosius won a second place award in the radio category for Best Sports Story for “Brew City Bruisers.” Lecturer Jane Hampden won a first place online media award for “End of Story,” produced for Milwaukee Magazine.
Seven JMC Students Join Phi Beta Kappa
Seven JMC students have been elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society founded in 1776. They are Stephanie Chadek, Rose Hebein, Michael Meidenbauer, Matthew Wodenka, Katherine Gengler, Aaron Knapp, and Caitlin Floria Penzey Moog.
M.A. Student's Oprah Show Receives National Award
The Dr. Laura Berman Show, produced on Oprah Radio by JMC master's student Alicia Haywood, has received a 2011 National Gracie Award® from the Alliance for Women in Media. The program won in the category of Outstanding Talk Show: Entertainment / Information.
Haywood, who also produces The Lisa Oz Show on Oprah Radio, has worked in radio, television, and film production for 17 years. She is a broadcast journalism graduate of UWM where she is completing her master's thesis on media literacy education for African-American adolescents.
The Gracie Awards, established in 1975, recognize exemplary programming created for women, by women, and about women. The 2011 awards will be presented at a black-tie gala in Los Angeles. Other winners this year include Katie Couric, Martha Stewart, Meredith Vieira, and Betty White.
Tess Gallun
JMC faculty member Tess Gallun’s documentary, Out of Respect: A Story of Five, premiered to a sold-out audience in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lubar Auditorium on February 24. The film traces the rejection, hardship, spirit and resilience in the lives of five LGBT young people aging out of Milwaukee's foster care system. Watch the trailer and listen to Gallun’s interview on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio. The next showing of Out of Respect will be Thursday, March 10, at 2 p.m. in the Union Theater on the UWM campus.
JMC graduate witnesses Egyptian revolution
Vueve DeShazer, a 2007 JMC graduate, has a front-row seat for the pro-democracy movement in Egypt that has gripped the attention of the world.
Since fall 2009 DeShazer has been teaching fifth grade at the American International School in Cairo. Her students, who come from privileged families, are largely insulated from the daily realities of the lives of ordinary Egyptians.
But as hundreds of thousands demonstrated in the streets for greater freedom, DeShazer was giving her students a taste of democracy in the classroom.
“We have held mock elections in the classroom and have weekly meetings in which the students vote on things they would like to see in the classroom,” she wrote in an e-mail.
Living in Cairo is a study in extreme comtrasts, according to DeShazer. “In this city you will find donkeys and horses next to Mercedes along with traffic that is six lanes wide with no lines,” she wrote. “In a city of over 20 million I have counted three only stoplights, but somehow it all works.”
Egypt is an ancient society, but modern media have been at the core of the pro-democracy movement.
“The role that technology has played during these past few weeks has been essential,” DeShazer wrote. “It has allowed an entire nation to come together with no clear organizer other than Facebook and Twitter.”
DeShazer, a graduate of Washington Park High School in Racine, has a passion for social justice projects. Her students in Egypt raised $14,000 to build a school in rural Cambodia through the Rural School Project. She will be heading to Cambodia in a few weeks for the school induction ceremony.
A collection of DeShazer’s photos from Cairo can be found at http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/115732389.html
2010
PantherVision
UWM PantherVision, a newscast produced by students in JMC's broadcast journalism program, has been honored with four regional Emmy nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Emmys are the highest awards given in television. Winners will be announced on November 6th at the 2010 Emmy Ceremony in Chicago. Other schools whose student work has been nominated include Northwestern, Notre Dame, and Columbia College.
JMC's student nominations include best newscast for PantherVision's thorough and thoughtful coverage of last spring's Chapman Hall protests, an event coverage story about the protests, a story about two 90-year-old men who have been auditing classes at UWM for the past 20 years, and a story about student cars being towed during City of Milwaukee street sweeping.
A list of the students who were nominated is below. The complete list of Emmy nominations can be found at http://www.chicagoemmyonline.org/. To see PantherVision's nominated entries, go to http://panthertv3.imt.uwm.edu/panthervision/panthervision.html.
Category #S-1. College Student Production – Best Newscast
Campus Clash: Ryan Murray, Producer/Photojournalist/Reporter; Ryan Schoonover, Photojournalist; Kati McCormick, Producer; Adilene Guajardo, Anchor/Reporter; Kyle Warnke, Anchor/Photojournalist; James Stewart, Director; Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Andy Fabitz, Cayla Ganter, Reporters/Producers; Erika Guenther, Photojournalist/Producer. UWM PantherVision, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Category #S-2. College Student Production – News Feature
Lifetime Learners: Stephanie Schell, Reporter; Matt Sliker, Photojournalist. UWM PantherVision, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Campus Chaos: Ryan Murray, Reporter/Photojournalist; Ryan Schoonover, Photojournalist. UWM PantherVision, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Where's My Car?: Ryan Schoonover, Reporter; Cayla Ganter, Photojournalist.
2009
Barbara Ley
Barbara Ley's book, From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement, will be published by Rutgers University Press in July 2009. This book examines the development of the U.S environmental breast cancer movement and its political, scientific, and cultural efforts to prevent the disease by reducing exposure to toxic chemicals. http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/From_Pink_to_Green.html
Marc Tasman
Marc Tasman will show a significant portion of his Ten Year Polaroid
Project, in which he has photographed himself everyday for ten years
(July 24, 1999- July 23, 2009), in the group exhibition "Flickers of
Recognition: Technology and the Self Portrait," at the Peninsula
School of Art in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. The show runs from June 5-
July 16. http://tinyurl.com/flickersofrecognition
2008
Jessica McBride
Jessica McBride has been chosen to receive the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association's 2008-09 Excellence Award for Non-tenure Track Instructors. She will be honored at the Alumni Association's Holiday Reception on December 5, 2008.
Paul Brewer
Paul Brewer has published Value War: Public Opinion and the Politics of Gay Rights. The book examines how the politics of gay rights has evolved in recent years and illuminates the broader tensions in American politics. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com
Elana Levine
Elana Levine's latest book is a volume of television criticism published by Duke University Press. Levine co-edited and contributed to Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The book examines stardom, gender identity, race, spectatorship, fandom, intertextuality, and other issues. http://www.dukeupress.edu
Tess Gallun
Tess Gallun has completed a documentary filmed by and featuring inner city youth as they conducted research on zebra mussels in the Great Lakes water basin. The project was a collaboration with Teen Approach and The Jason Project. https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/tmgallun/public/Zebra%20Mussel.mov
David Pritchard
Professor David Pritchard and co-author Mary Lynn Young of the University of British Columbia have won the Rufus Z. Smith Award for the best article published in the American Review of Canadian Studies in 2006. The article, "Cross-Border Crime Stories: American Media, Canadian Law, and Murder in the Internet Age," appeared in the autumn issue.