Awards

WisContext has been honored for its journalism and reporting in collaboration with PBS Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio and other partner organizations. This work has been recognized by the Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, Milwaukee Press Club, Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association and Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.

A list of the specific honors recognizing WisContext follows, listed by the year in which this work was produced.

 

2019

Radio Television Digital News Association Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards
 

• Multimedia: wiscontext.org


• Excellence in Innovation: High Tolerance: Wisconsin's Complicated Relationship with Alcohol (WisContext contributed to this Wisconsin Public Radio series)

Milwaukee Press Club
 

• Best Explanatory Story or Series — Gold: The New Normal of Wisconsin's Climate


• Best Online Coverage of News — Gold: CAFOs, Odor and the Law


• Best Use of Multi-Platform Reporting — Gold: Trauma Informed Care in Wisconsin


• Best Online Investigative Story or Series — Gold: Washed Away: The Costs of a Changing Climate


• Best Online Business Story or Series — Gold: The Dairy Crisis, Milk Prices and a Growth Sector


• Best Use of Multimedia — Silver: Applying Demographics to Visualize Wisconsin Issues (WisContext collaborated with the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory on these reports)


• Best Blog — Silver: WisContext Newsletter


• Best Online Hard Feature Story — Silver: Elk and Chronic Wasting Disease


• Best Online Explanatory Story or Series — Silver: White-Nose Syndrome in Wisconsin


• Best Online Public Service Story or Series — Silver: High Tolerance: Wisconsin's Complicated Relationship With Alcohol (WisContext contributed to this Wisconsin Public Radio series)

Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association
 

• Medium Market Television Individual Multimedia Storytelling-News — Award of Merit: Washed Away: The Costs Of A Changing Climate


• Large Market Radio Team Multimedia Storytelling-News — First Place: High Tolerance: Wisconsin's Complicated Relationship With Alcohol (WisContext contributed to this Wisconsin Public Radio series)

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
 

• Medium Market Television Best Website — Third Place: wiscontext.org

   

2018

Milwaukee Press Club
 

• Best Online Coverage of News — Gold: Foxconn and Great Lakes Water


• Best Use of Multimedia — Gold: The Geography of Partisan Gerrymandering (WisContext collaborated with the University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory on these reports)


• Best Online Business Story or Series — Silver: The Direct Primary Care Business Model


• Best Online Investigative Story or Series — Silver: Special Elections and Legislative Vacancies


• Best Online Explanatory Story or Series — Bronze: Why and When Flags Fly at Half-Staff

Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association
 

• Medium Market Television Individual Multimedia Storytelling — Award of Merit: Wisconsin's Special Elections Battle

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
 

• Medium Market Television Television Best Website — First Place: wiscontext.org

 

2017

Milwaukee Press Club
 

• Best Online Coverage of News — Gold: Gill v. Whitford Goes to the Supreme Court


• Best Online Business Story or Series — Gold: Hurricane Maria and the Medical Supply Chain


• Best Local News or Feature Website — Bronze: wiscontext.org


• Best Online Investigative Story or Series — Bronze: Foxconn in Wisconsin

Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association
 

• Large Market Radio Individual Multimedia Storytelling — First Place: Synthetic Opioids and Public Health


• Large Market Radio Team Multimedia Storytelling — Award of Merit: Refugee Resettlement in Wisconsin


• Large Market Radio Social Media — Award of Merit: Twitter Strategy

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
 

• Medium Market Television Best Social Media — Third Place: Twitter Strategy

 

2016

Milwaukee Press Club
 

• Best Use of Multi-Platform Reporting — Silver: Voter ID in an Election Year


• Best Online Public Service Story or Series — Silver: Understanding Well Water and Improving its Quality (WisContext collaborated with the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension on these reports)


• Best Local News or Feature Website — Bronze: wiscontext.org


• Best Online Investigative Story — Bronze: DNR Lead Pipe Replacement Plan

Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association
 

• Medium Market Television Website — First Place: wiscontext.org


• Medium Market Television Team Multimedia Storytelling — Award of Merit: Elizabethkingia In Wisconsin

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
 

• Television Social and Digital Media Website — Third Place: wiscontext.org


• Television Social and Digital Media Web Story — Third Place: Elizabethkingia in Wisconsin

 

2015

Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
 

• Radio News/Talk Best Web Story — First Place: El Niño in Wisconsin