Do journalism that really matters

Each winter we ask journalists a few simple questions: Are you ready to do the best journalism of…

The O’Brien Fellowship Welcomes the 2019–2020 Fellowship Class

Announcing the 2022–23 O’Brien Fellows

Journalists will report for nine months on homeless youths, gun…

Meet the 2021–22 O’Brien Fellowship Reporting Interns

Nine students are joining four new Fellows on…

Crime and Punishment in Milwaukee: Ten Questions for Reporter Ashley Luthern (O’Brien Fellow 2018–19)

Last year in Milwaukee, a black resident was eight times as likely as a white resident to be shot and killed.

Introducing the 2021–22 O’Brien Fellows

New Fellows to focus on inequities in education, healthcare…

How an underfunded lead poisoning surveillance system failed Flint

A lack of transparency at the state and local level led to criminal charges and civil lawsuits following findings that officials did not act quickly enough to alert residents in Flint, Michigan, that their water had…

Announcing the 2018–19 O’Brien Fellows

The J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication announced today that five…

Doulas and midwives in Wisconsin are returning to ‘the ancient model of community’