{"id":2818,"date":"2023-05-14T23:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2023-05-15T00:14:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:14:14","slug":"wisconsin-right-now-wins-3-gold-milwaukee-press-club-awards-for-parole-commission-tim-michels-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Right Now Wins 3 Gold Milwaukee Press Club Awards for Parole Commission & Tim Michels Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-right-now-wins-3-gold-milwaukee-press-club-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain deeply troubled by the Wisconsin news media\u2019s lack of interest in the voices of victims when covering that topic. The media made the parole story only about numbers. To us, it was a story, ultimately, about the effect on human beings.\u201d \u2013 <\/em><\/strong>WRN Co-editor Jessica McBride<\/p>\n

Wisconsin Right Now has won three 1st place gold Milwaukee Press Club awards for our coverage of paroles, the state\u2019s failure to notify victims of parole hearings, and Tim Michels\u2019 residency questions.<\/p>\n

The awards, won by WRN co-editors Jessica McBride and Jim Piwowarczyk, were presented by the Milwaukee Press Club on May 12 at the Gridiron Awards Dinner<\/a> at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.\"Milwaukee<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Press Club is a statewide contest, so McBride and Piwowarczyk competed against the state\u2019s major television stations, newspapers, and online sites. \u201cThe Milwaukee Press Club is the oldest continuously operating press club in North America, and possibly the world,\u201d its website says.<\/p>\n

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The 1st Place Gold Awards Were:<\/h2>\n

Best Coverage of a Single News Topic or Event Including Breaking News: \u201cDouglas Balsewicz\u201d<\/h3>\n

\"DouglasWRN won 1st place for our coverage of the pending parole of wife killer Douglas Balsewicz<\/a>, whose parole was ultimately reversed<\/a>. The parole commissioner, John Tate later resigned<\/a> after Gov. Evers belatedly asked for his resignation. As a result of this case and other coverage, there is a bill to improve transparency in the parole process winding through the state Legislature.<\/p>\n

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Best Public Service Story or Series:\u00a0 \u201cVictims\u2019 Families Not Notified About Paroles\u201d<\/h3>\n

\"WisconsinWRN won 1st place for our series of stories<\/a> in which we uncovered the fact that multiple murder victims\u2019 families were not notified by the state of paroles and parole hearings of the killers of their loved ones, contrary to state law.<\/p>\n

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Best Investigative Story or Series:
\nTim Michels\u2019 Residency Questions<\/h3>\n

\"Wisconsin<\/p>\n

WRN tied for 1st place for our story investigating gubernatorial Tim Michels\u2019 residency questions.<\/a><\/p>\n

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WRN competed with the state\u2019s major newspapers, online sites and television stations in the award contest. Wisconsin Right Now has won Milwaukee Press Club awards every year<\/a> since its founding in August 2020.<\/p>\n

\"Milwaukee
Wrn co-editor jim piwowarczyk displaying the first of three milwaukee press club awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe are most proud that we were able to give a needed voice to victims who had been left out of the state\u2019s parole process,\u201d McBride said. \u201cWe remain deeply troubled by the Wisconsin news media\u2019s lack of interest in the voices of victims when covering that topic. The media made the parole story only about numbers. To us, it was a story, ultimately, about the effect on human beings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-right-now-wins-3-gold-milwaukee-press-club-awards\/ \u201cWe remain deeply troubled by the Wisconsin news media\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}