Jordan L. Siegler named Wisconsin Public Media Interim Executive Director

November 1, 2024

Jordan L. Siegler has been named Interim Executive Director of Wisconsin Public Media (WPM), the division at the University of…

Wisconsin Public Media Remembers Executive Director Heather L. Reese

October 14, 2024

Wisconsin Public Media (WPM) is saddened by the death of Heather L. Reese, executive director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison…

Wisconsin Public Media Remembers Director Gene Purcell

August 2, 2021

Wisconsin Public Media (WPM) is saddened by the death of Gene Purcell, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison division that…

Happy Birthday, Daniel Tiger! Watch his 1954 TV debut

April 5, 2017

Happy birthday, Daniel Tiger! Watch our favorite little tiger puppet make his April 5, 1954 TV debut on WQED’s  “The…

Celebrating Bob Dylan

October 14, 2016

To some, the choice of Bob Dylan as the 2016 Nobel laureate in Literature might be surprising. To others, who…

Meet the MacArthur Winners – on WPT and WPR

September 23, 2016

As we learned the names of the new MacArthur Fellows yesterday – winners of the so-called “genius grants” – we…

The One Place That Can Take You Anyplace – Including the Top of the Great Pyramid

July 11, 2016

Wisconsin Public Television is the one place that can take you anyplace – like this brilliant 360-degree immersive view from…

Extended Report on “Too Many Candles: Milwaukee Gun Violence”

May 17, 2016

After the premiere of our most recent documentary, Too Many Candles: Milwaukee Gun Violence, our partners at Wisconsin Public Radio and…