Meet the Media
Event Details
Join us for an entertaining evening featuring celebrity bartenders from your favorite media outlets.
Meet the Media: A Night of Conversations, Connections and Cocktails
Join us for Meet the Media, a one-of-a-kind networking event where guests mingle with Milwaukee’s journalists, business leaders, and public officials—all while local media personalities and community figures step behind the bar as celebrity bartenders at the historic Newsroom Pub.
Why Attend
In a time when trust in journalism is being tested and truth can feel hard to find—especially on social media—this event offers a unique opportunity to rebuild and strengthen those vital connections. Share a beverage and engage in candid conversations with Milwaukee’s top journalists and communications experts about the evolving role of “The Media” in our society.
What to Expect
- Celebrity Bartenders: Milwaukee’s leading media professionals will serve up cocktails and conversation all evening long.
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with journalists, community and business leaders, and communications consultants from across the region.
- A Toast to Trust: Be part of an evening dedicated to open dialogue and connection between the media and the community it serves.
- New this year! Your $5 registration fee directly supports the Milwaukee Press Club Endowment, helping to provide scholarships for aspiring journalists, fund journalism education programs, and create opportunities for young people to explore careers in media.
Come celebrate 140 years of journalism and join the conversation about its future—over a drink, of course.
Booking
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Advanced registration and payment are required and may be done by booking below.
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MPC Endowment
Contribute to Journalism Excellence
The endowment carries out its mission by providing scholarships to students, funding journalism-related education programs and supporting activities of the Milwaukee Press Club.
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MPC Membership
Support journalistic excellence in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin and become part of the oldest continuously operating press club in the country, founded in 1885. The Press Club also supports the MPC Endowment Ltd., which awards annual journalism scholarships to students and provides grants to journalism programs.