Chali Pittman
News Director at @civicmediaus; formerly @wortnews. I spend my time listening. 📻☕️
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1 month ago |
wortfm.org | Chali Pittman
After nearly a dozen years at WORT — and half of that time as News and Talk Director — I’m signing off. My last day at the station is Friday, May 16, 2025. I’m grateful to have had the joy of training hundreds of new reporters and hosts and engineers. I’ve gotten to launch new projects and be welcomed into spaces and communities I didn’t know existed.
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1 month ago |
wortfm.org | Chali Pittman
More than 150 retired judges from around the country are speaking out against the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan.
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1 month ago |
wortfm.org | Nate Carlin |Chali Pittman
WORT volunteers and staffers were honored over the weekend at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s Awards For Excellence. From an open-records driven investigation into consultant pay at the Universities of Wisconsin to the rise of a local worker cooperative to the history of the sex business in Madison, the awards celebrated the breadth of coverage you can find on WORT. WORT competed in the Large Market Radio category, against many professional newsrooms much larger in size.
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2 months ago |
wortfm.org | Chali Pittman
Dina Nina Martinez Rutherford didn’t campaign for her second term as alder. She suspended her campaign in mid-January for a variety of reasons — reasons she outlined at a press conference this morning. “Like many of us, and like many of our transgender siblings and family, I found myself overstretched with an impending new administration, and planned surgery that would have taken me out of the race for three weeks… And I’m also searching for a new place.
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Mar 27, 2025 |
wortfm.org | Chali Pittman
About this guideThis year, April 1st is no joke. In addition to April Fool’s Day, it’s also the Spring Election. In Wisconsin, elections held in the spring are for nonpartisan offices: offices where there’s no (D), (R), or other party signifier next to a candidate’s name.
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