Jimmy Gutierrez
News ReporterJimmy Gutierrez became a WUWM news reporter in December 2024. Previously, he supported WUWM as a Lake Effect producer during 2024's election cycle.
Before joining WUWM, Jimmy was a senior editor for TED’s Audio Collective and managing editor for LWC Studios. He’s also a service journalist who directed the relaunch of the Detroit Documenters program for Outlier Media. His community-based work in Milwaukee was recognized with a John S. Knight Impact Fellowship from Stanford University.
Jimmy grew up on the south side and was raised in MPS schools. He’s a graduate of MATC and UW-Milwaukee, and first interned at WUWM in the summer of 2012. He was also a Milwaukee Firefighter.
Outside of work, you can find him lounging on his porch, listening to a podcast with his cat, Michelle Yeoh, or playing ball at Washington Park.
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Western Wisconsin is filled with small, slow-paced towns where neighbors know each other. But as continued ICE operations in the Twin Cities spill over across the border, they’ve also become a target. -
ProPublica reporters have been looking into the living conditions inside the Dilley detention center, where immigrant families and children are held. -
There’s perhaps no place in the state hit harder by gun violence than Milwaukee. This Saturday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hosting a forum for people to talk about gun safety, gun ownership and gun violence. -
This Sunday is International Women’s Day, and to celebrate, we passed the mic to two organizers from Milwaukee’s International Women’s Day Coalition. -
President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill has changed tax credit eligibility for ITIN holders. A financial expert has advice. -
Love and intimacy have no age limits. On this month’s "Group Chat," we'll hear from two seniors who found out what’s possible with a second chance at love. -
Milwaukee police have banned the use of facial recognition technology for now, following a heated Fire and Police Commission meeting. A tech policy shares what the public should know. -
When Jane LaGolden started her senior social group in Milwaukee 10 years ago, she didn’t want to knit a blanket, read a book or watercolor. She wanted to meet other seniors and build community. -
Over the past few years, Milwaukee police have used facial recognition technology in criminal investigations. But they did so without community input or documented procedures. All of that came to a head in a Fire and Police Commission meeting. -
On one night in January every year, Milwaukee County workers scour the area looking for people experiencing homelessness for the annual Point-In-Time Count. This is a federal requirement, but it is only a snapshot of the larger picture.
