WisconsinWatch.org was named the best local news or feature website at the Milwaukee Press Club’s annual awards celebration on Friday night.

The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which produces the website, was honored with three gold (first place) awards and a silver in the club’s Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism, the state’s premiere all-media journalism competition.

The Center now has received nine awards — six of them for first place — in the contest over the past two years.

“These awards recognize the incredible efforts of the Center’s staff and UW-Madison journalism students to dig deeply into important issues facing Wisconsin residents,” said Andy Hall, the Center’s founder and executive director.

He noted that the awards were related to coverage of such diverse issues as pollution from coal-fired power plants, an analysis of 50,000 emails sent to Gov. Scott Walker, and Wisconsin’s emergency preparedness in the decade since the 9/11 terrorism attacks.

The award for producing the state’s top local news or feature website demonstrates the high overall quality of the Center’s work and the progress it has made since launching operations in January 2009, Hall said.

See more details about the award winners here.

GOLD: 
Best innovative feature
Kate Golden
Emissions data for seven coal-firedpower plants

SILVER:
Best coverage of a single news topic or event
Kate Golden
Lauren Hasler
Julie Strupp
Amy Karon
Cailly Morris
Andrew Averill
Wesley Brooks
Walker emails

GOLD:
Best background, analytical or interpretive story
Jason Smathers
Sarah Karon
Kate Golden
Andy Hall
Dee J. Hall
Security After 9/11: 10 Years Later

GOLD:
Best local news or feature website
Kate Golden
Andy Hall
WisconsinWatch.org/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

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Center wins four awards, including top website, from Milwaukee Press Club

by Lauren Fuhrmann, Wisconsin Watch
May 22, 2012

<h1>Center wins four awards, including top website, from Milwaukee Press Club</h1> <p class="byline">by Lauren Fuhrmann, Wisconsin Watch <br />May 22, 2012</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image wp-caption right is-resized" id="attachment_13476"><a href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/viz/visualization-emissions-data-for-seven-coal-fired-power-plants/"><img src="https://wisconsinwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/coalplants-300x220.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-13476" title="coalplants" height="220" width="300" /></a><figcaption>Click to see the interactive graphic produced by the Center's Kate Golden. This won a first place award for best innovative feature.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="http://" target="_blank">WisconsinWatch.org</a> was named the best local news or feature website at the Milwaukee Press Club’s annual awards celebration on Friday night.</p> <p>The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, which produces the website, was honored with three gold (first place) awards and a silver in the club’s Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism, the state’s premiere all-media journalism competition.</p> <p>The Center now has received nine awards — six of them for first place — in the contest over the past two years.</p> <p>“These awards recognize the incredible efforts of the Center’s staff and UW-Madison journalism students to dig deeply into important issues facing Wisconsin residents,” said Andy Hall, the Center’s founder and executive director.</p> <p>He noted that the awards were related to coverage of such diverse issues as pollution from coal-fired power plants, an analysis of 50,000 emails sent to Gov. Scott Walker, and Wisconsin’s emergency preparedness in the decade since the 9/11 terrorism attacks.</p> <p>The award for producing the state’s top local news or feature website demonstrates the high overall quality of the Center’s work and the progress it has made since launching operations in January 2009, Hall said.</p> <p>See more details about the award winners <a href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/2012/04/09/center-wins-four-milwaukee-press-club-awards/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>GOLD:&nbsp;</strong><br /> <strong>Best innovative feature</strong><br /> Kate Golden<br /> <a href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/viz/visualization-emissions-data-for-seven-coal-fired-power-plants/" target="_blank">Emissions data for seven coal-firedpower plants</a></p> <p><strong>SILVER:</strong><br /> <strong>Best coverage of a single news topic or event</strong><br /> Kate Golden<br /> Lauren Hasler<br /> Julie Strupp<br /> Amy Karon<br /> Cailly Morris<br /> Andrew Averill<br /> Wesley Brooks<br /> <a href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/2011/03/21/analysis-emails-favored-walker-2-1/" target="_blank">Walker emails</a></p> <p><strong>GOLD:</strong><br /> <strong>Best background, analytical or interpretive story</strong><br /> Jason Smathers<br /> Sarah Karon<br /> Kate Golden<br /> Andy Hall<br /> Dee J. Hall<br /> <a href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/2011/09/11/collaborative-project-security-after-911-10-years-later/" target="_blank">Security After 9/11: 10 Years Later</a></p> <p><strong>GOLD:</strong><br /> <strong>Best local news or feature website</strong><br /> Kate Golden<br /> Andy Hall<br /> <a href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/" target="_blank">WisconsinWatch.org/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism</a></p> <p><em>The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (<a href="www.WisconsinWatch.org">www.WisconsinWatch.org</a>) collaborates with Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, other news media and the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by the Center do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.</em></p> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://wisconsinwatch.org/2012/05/award-for-top-website-among-four-center-awards-from-milwaukee-press-club/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://wisconsinwatch.org">Wisconsin Watch</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/wisconsinwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-WCIJ_IconOnly_FullColor_RGB-1.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://wisconsinwatch.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=13450&amp;ga4=G-D2S69Y9TDB" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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