Matt Murphy

1 week ago | weru.org | Matt Murphy

WERU is thrilled to announce that Wabanaki Windows and host Donna Loring have won a 2025 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation! Wabanaki Windows airs on WERU on the 4th Tuesday of every month from 4 to 5 pm, and also airs on WMPG Community Radio in Portland. Congratulations, Donna, on this recognition and thank you for your many years of excellent programming! “Read more” to see the full press release.

1 month ago | weru.org | Matt Murphy

You are here: Home / Station News / Americans Who Tell the Truth: Rivera SunSince 2002, Maine artist Robert Shetterly and Americans Who Tell the Truth have created and presented 280 portraits of Americans they describe as “Models of Courageous Citizenship.” Shetterly’s most recent portrait subject is Rivera Sun, activist and award-winning author of The Dandelion Insurrection and many other books, whose portrait was unveiled at the Bay School in Blue Hill on May 4.

1 month ago | weru.org | Matt Murphy

WERU Community Radio is one of the best local sources of information, delivering educational and cultural enrichment, emergency alerts, and community connections for Midcoast, Downeast, and Central Maine. But all of that is at risk. Federal funding is under serious threat and its loss would jeopardize WERU’s future, as it comprises one quarter of our overall annual funding. But listeners like you can make a difference. Tell Congress to protect the federal funding that helps to make WERU possible.

2 months ago | weru.org | Matt Murphy

You are here: Home / Station News / A Loud “Thank You!” for the Quiet Drive!WERU thanks everyone who donated during the WERU Quiet Drive, which ran from March 22 through March 28. The Quiet Drive was online only and entirely silent on the airwaves, and was conducted purely through social media, our website, and our mobile app.

2 months ago | weru.org | Matt Murphy

Filed Under: Station News “Anti-American Airwaves” Congressional Hearing on March 26At 10am today (Wednesday, March 26), the leaders of NPR and PBS will testify before Congress in a hearing titled “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable.” We expect public media’s funding to be called into question as they answer to the subcommittee’s claims of “biased news coverage… for an increasingly narrow and elitist audience.” View the hearing.