Alaina Walsh

Associate news editor

Alaina Walsh is the associate news editor for The Daily Cardinal. She has covered breaking news on city crimes and a variety of state and campus stories, including the 2024 presidential election and the UW-Madison budget.

Courtesy of UW-Madison/Bryce Richter

CAMPUS NEWS

UW primate lab names new director

By Alaina Walsh | Oct. 30

Ricardo Carrion Jr. will lead the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center amid a period of heightened scrutiny.

Singer-songwriter Alex Warren performs a private concert at the Orpheum Theater as part of the Future Friends mental wellness

CAMPUS NEWS

Alex Warren concert helps launch ‘Future Friends’ mental health initiative

By Alaina Walsh | Oct. 23

Alex Warren performed at the Orpheum for the kickoff of Future Friends, a national mental wellness and music initiative by Two Bridge and Core Spaces.

PODCAST

Cardinal Call: Ethnic studies program to remain in UW-Madison curriculum

By Alaina Walsh and Ted Hyngstrom | Oct. 15

This week host Ted Hyngstrom speaks to Daily Cardinal Associate News Editor ⁠Alaina Walsh ⁠about her story “⁠UW-Madison to keep ethnic studies requirement ⁠” in a discussion of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s clarification of its course standardization plan.

Annika Larsen

STATE NEWS

Democratic lawmakers hope SWIFTIE Act reduces ticket prices

By Grace Williams and Alaina Walsh | Oct. 15

Democratic lawmakers introduce new bill aiming to shake off bots, inflated fees and deceptive resellers.

Finnegan Ricco

CAMPUS NEWS

‘Shame’: Students berate Mnookin over financial priorities, protest policy at ASM meeting

By Grace Williams and Alaina Walsh | Oct. 13

University of Wisconsin-Madison students confronted Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin over research ethics, campus protest rules and financial choices at a student government meeting Wednesday.

Meghan Spirito

STATE NEWS

Legislators introduce competing abortion bills after Planned Parenthood pauses services

By Alaina Walsh and Celine Essaied | Oct. 10

Wisconsin Democrats warned changes to Medicaid payments in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill would further complicate abortion access, while Republicans move to narrow the definition of abortion to clear “ambiguity” in state law.

ARTS

Taylor Swift stages a dazzling, defiant reinvention with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

By Alaina Walsh | Oct. 9

Her 12th album is part glitter, part grit — Taylor Swift shines big with a theatrical reinvention that confronts the double standards of fame and still earns a standing ovation.

Jake Piper

CAMPUS NEWS

Faculty Senate discusses new computing school, ethnic studies

By Alaina Walsh | Oct. 8

University of Wisconsin-Madison leaders discussed creating a new college for computing and data sciences and the future of ethnic studies as a general education requirement at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.

Leah Voskuil

CAMPUS NEWS

UW-Madison to keep ethnic studies requirement

By Alaina Walsh | Oct. 8

Outrage was sparked after The Associated Students of Madison and The Badger Herald circulated incomplete interpretations of the draft policy.

Maggie Spinney

CAMPUS NEWS

Mnookin hopeful UW will meet challenges despite ‘bumps and bruises’

By Annika Bereny and Alaina Walsh | Oct. 2

At a student media roundtable Tuesday, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin celebrated University of Wisconsin-Madison’s incoming freshman class while discussing pressing federal and state funding challenges.