Awards
The Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have received the Pulitzer Prize eight times:
In 1919, The Milwaukee Journal won the award for public service because of its stand against Germany in World War I.
In 1934, cartoonist Ross A. Lewis won for his cartoon on labor-industry violence.
In 1953, business desk reporter Austin C. Wehrwein won for international reporting with the series of stories "Canada's New Century."
In 1966, the series "Pollution: The Spreading Menace" garnered the award for public service.
In 1977, Margo Huston became the first female staff member of The Milwaukee Journal to win a Pulitzer Prize. She won the award in the category of best general reporting for a series of articles on the elderly and the process of aging.
In 2008, local government reporter David Umhoefer was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for his investigation of the Milwaukee County pension system.
In 2010, reporter Raquel Rutledge was awarded the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting for her investigations and stories on abuses in a state-run child care system.
In 2011, Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar, and Alison Sherwood were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for their "lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images."
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