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Milwaukee Press Club 'Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism' 2020, 2021 & 2022 Triple GOLD Award Recipients
Wisconsin Right Now is a Wisconsin-focused news platform with breaking news & some opinion.
Little About Jim,
Jim Piwowarczyk is an avid real estate investor and small business owner. Jim served as a police officer in Wisconsin for more than 20 years. His career started as a police officer in Milwaukee County in 1994 as a patrol officer, until he was promoted to patrol sergeant in 2003 where he worked the 3rd shift until he left in 2009 to pursue business aspirations. Jim Piwowarczyk was a field training officer, evidence technician & hostage negotiator and conducted many drug investigations. Jim continued to work part-time for an area police department.
Jim developed and operated 5 Snap Fitness centers. He has been involved in all aspects of real estate from development, investing, and real estate sales.
During the last 23 years, Jim has purchased, managed, developed, and sold commercial and residential income properties, totaling over 30 properties.
A Wisconsin resident, Jim is considered an expert in negotiating difficult real estate deals, giving advice and mentoring others in the purchase and selling of all types of real estate. Jim Piwowarczyk attended the University of Wisconsin, Moraine Park Technical College (Police science), and Marian College of Fond du Lac‘s Administration of Justice program.
In his free time, Jim enjoys time with his family in northern Wisconsin. Jim is an avid musky fisherman and enjoys fishing, hunting, and snowmobiling with his three children. Jim is a licensed private pilot.
Jim Piwowarczyk, as the Wisconsin Right Now site owner, has final editorial control over all stories on this site.
Jim won a statewide excellence in journalism award from a prestigious press association for his news photography during the Kenosha, Wisconsin, riots. The award was in the category of best news photography, although the exact place – gold, silver or bronze – will not be known until the Press Club’s virtual ceremony.
Wisconsin Right Now is a Wisconsin-based and owned news organization.
Wisconsin Right Now: Our Mission
Wisconsin Right Now is a Wisconsin-focused news platform founded in 2020 that offers breaking news and some opinion, with an emphasis on Wisconsin. We are self-funded and, thus, an independent voice. Our mission is to give you the news you won’t see elsewhere.
Little About Jessica,
Jessica McBride, Milwaukee journalist, and a Wisconsin Right Now contributor, is a national award-winning journalist and journalism educator with more than 25 years in journalism. She is recipient of the UW-Milwaukee Alumni Foundation’s teaching excellence award, for her innovations in teaching and her founding of the Minority Media Association, which champions media diversity. She was the co-founder of the U-View campus television program focusing on bringing diverse voices to campus and improving media diversity.
Jessica McBride’s journalism career started at the Waukesha Freeman newspaper in 1993, covering City Hall. She was an investigative, crime, and general assignment reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a decade. Since 2004, she has taught journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has appeared in many news outlets, including Patch.com, WTMJ, WISN, WUWM, Wispolitics.com, OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee Magazine, Nightline, El Conquistador Latino Newspaper, Japanese and German television, Channel 58, Reader’s Digest, Twist (magazine), Wisconsin Public Radio, Heavy.com, BBC, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, and others.
Jessica McBride, Milwaukee, Wisconsin area resident, has appeared on true-crime programs for Investigation Discovery, Oxygen Channel, and History Channel. She has a Master’s Degree in Mass Communication from UWM and judges statewide journalism competitions nationwide for press clubs in states ranging from Idaho to Louisiana. Her work is her own and does not represent the institutions where she works, including UWM.
Jessica McBride is a winner of prestigious state journalism awards for categories including investigative reporting, column writing, blogging, feature story that first appeared on the Web, story that contributed to the community welfare, short feature writing, magazine feature writing, spot-news reporting, explanatory/interpretive reporting, and best continuous reporting. She is the winner of the national Clark Mollenhoff Award for Excellence in Investigative Reporting. She won regional awards in investigative reporting and personality profile.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (winner of newspaper staff award).
Some highlights:
UW-Milwaukee Alumni Association Teaching Excellence Award for academic staff recipient, 2008.
Co-editor of Media Milwaukee, the department’s national, regional, and state award-winning online news site.
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Wisconsin Right Now is a Wisconsin-focused news platform with breaking news & some opinion. We are an independent voice reporting the unsanitized facts on news that MSM won’t report. We do not take dark money, and we don't want to be reliant on Google Ads/big tech. We have families to support, and this takes a lot of time. We are seeking your support to keep our journalism alive - and independent. A reoccurring membership would really help us, but any amount is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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