The Recombobulation Area wins three Milwaukee Press Club awards
Award-winners include Dan Shafer, Philip Rocco and Angela Lang.
The Recombobulation Area is a ten-time THIRTEEN-TIME Milwaukee Press Club award-winning weekly opinion column and online publication written, edited and published by longtime Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it here.
For the fourth consecutive year, The Recombobulation Area is the winner of multiple awards in the Milwaukee Press Club’s 2023 Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism competition.
The Milwaukee Press Club today announced finalists for its 94th annual awards, with winners coming from “almost 900 entries from throughout Wisconsin in professional and collegiate categories.” You can see the full list of finalists here. We’ll find out whether each finalist received a gold, silver or bronze award at the Gridiron Awards event at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee on May 3.
The Recombobulation Area’s three awards include the following (all in the “Online Exclusively” category):
Best Column
Dan Shafer, The Recombobulation Area
Best Single Editorial, Statement of Editorial Position or Opinion
Best Explanatory Story or Series
Philip Rocco, The legislative battle over Act 12
This year’s awards represent a first for our publication, with multiple writers earning awards. Regular contributors to the publication, Angela Lang, the executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, and Philip Rocco, associate professor of political science at Marquette University, each won their first Milwaukee Press Club awards with The Recombobulation Area for their work in 2023. Lang’s award for “Best Single Editorial” makes it the third time in four years The Recombobulation Area has won in this category.
Dan Shafer, founder of The Recombobulation Area, was also honored with “Best Column,” an award he’s now won four times with this publication in both Writing and Online categories. In total, he has now won 18 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism awards during his career. Along with 11 awards with The Recombobulation Area, he also won awards working for the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and ThirdCoast Digest.
Since launching in 2019, The Recombobulation Area has now won thirteen Milwaukee Press Club awards, including two gold and three silver honors.
The Recombobulation Area is proud to be an independent media outlet, and proud of our work in 2023 covering news and politics in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, with incisive commentary and in-depth reporting that sets this publication apart.
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Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. He’s also written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Seattle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s won 17 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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Well done! 👏👏
Well deserved 👏🏼