Wausau Pilot & Review
Wausau Pilot has been named a finalist for three Milwaukee Press Club Awards for explanatory, news and business reporting.
Finalists for the Annual MPC Awards for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism competition were announced on Tuesday. Actual award placement– gold, silver and bronze – will be announced May 3 in Milwaukee.
This year’s contest drew nearly 900 entries from throughout Wisconsin in professional and collegiate categories.
Shereen Siewert’s reporting on cancer risks identified at a Wausau park earned a nod for best explanatory story or series, while her coverage of PFAS cost recovery litigation was named in the best coverage of a single news story or topic category.
The newspaper also earned a finalist position in the business category for its Business of the Week series, which highlights local organizations in the Wausau area.
Wausau Pilot, a nonprofit newspaper founded in 2017, has earned multiple state and national accolades for its local reporting including more than a dozen first-place finishes. Past awards have been bestowed by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and from LION, an organization that supports a network of hundreds of publishers nationwide. This is the first year that Wausau Pilot has competed in the Milwaukee Press Club competition.
The competition was judged by professional journalists from press clubs throughout the U.S., including statewide clubs in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Western Pennsylvania and Southeast Texas and metro-area clubs in Atlanta, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco and Syracuse. The Milwaukee Press Club is the oldest continuously operating press club in North America.
See a list of all the finalists at this link.
