Jessica McBride is a national award-winning journalist and journalism educator with more than 25 years in journalism. Reach her at [email protected].
She is a recipient of Milwaukee Press Club awards for many categories, including public service news reporting, investigative reporting, feature writing, column writing, background and interpretive reporting, magazine writing, blogging, review writing, podcasting, and more. She is also the winner of a national investigative reporting award and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association reporting awards. She has won Milwaukee Press Club awards every year since 2020 (most recently 2025 for 2024 work), including three gold awards for the best public service news reporting, investigative reporting, and news reporting in the state of Wisconsin. She also won awards dating back many years before that.
She is a former daily newspaper reporter for a decade in Milwaukee (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Waukesha Freeman newspapers) and is a university journalism instructor (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for the past 20-plus years) and winner of the UWM Alumni Foundation teaching excellence award. She also has experience in radio, online media, true crime television, magazines, and more. She authored a book on the Steven Avery murder case. Her students have won dozens of reporting awards including national awards for work in her classes.
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