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Chuck Quirmbach is a Milwaukee-based reporter who covers developments and issues in Southeastern Wisconsin that are of statewide interest. He has numerous years of experience covering state government, elections, the environment, energy, racial...
Gilman Halsted is the Criminal Justice reporter in Madison. He covers the courts and the prison system also writes and produces general assignment stories for the daily state newscasts.
Gilman began his career in journalism late in life....
John Davis has worked in Wisconsin Public Radio’s La Crosse bureau since 1991. John graduated from UW-La Crosse in 1988 and spent two and a half years working in commercial radio in Decorah, Iowa and Spring Grove, Minnesota, returning to his...
Prior to joining WPR, Kristen Durst was Morning Edition host and news producer for public radio stations WESM in Princess Anne, Maryland, WSCL in Salisbury, Maryland, and WBNI in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Additionally, she's worked as a commercial...
Lindsey Moon joined Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison as the Lee Ester News Fellow in August 2012. She comes to WPR from Iowa Public Radio where she was a reporter/producer working on both investigative reporting projects and the network's two...
Michael Leland has been WPR's news director since 2006, and has been in the radio news business for more than 25 years. He's a New Englander by birth and a Midwesterner by choice. Michael has worked at stations in the Cincinnati, St Louis, and...
It was a dark and stormy night on September 10, 1957 in Duluth, Minnesota. Lake Superior's waves crashed over break walls. Lightning forced people to run for cover. And a young couple gave birth to an unusually handsome baby boy.
Mike...
Noah comes to WPR from Detroit, where he was an award-winning journalist with that city's public radio station (WDET). While in the "Motor City", he covered virtually every beat there is in a newsroom. He was also the station's primary backup...