Becky Mortensen
Lake Effect Executive ProducerBecky Mortensen joined WUWM as the Executive Producer of Lake Effect in November 2019. Before working at WUWM, she was the Executive Producer at CBS 58 News in Milwaukee. She was nominated for an Emmy in 2016 for her work during the Sherman Park unrest.
Becky led a rebrand effort for Lake Effect in 2020. She is enthusiastic about Lake Effect’s mission to inform, intrigue and entertain listeners and is committed to Lake Effect reflecting the Milwaukee community.
Becky has lived in Milwaukee since 2012. Before that, she lived in Minnesota and worked in television, radio, and print. She graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a Writing Studies degree with an emphasis in journalism.
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The Pfister Hotel is one of Milwaukee’s most historic and luxurious places to stay. It’s been around for nearly 130 years and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s also supposedly haunted. For Bubbler Talk WUWM's Becky Mortensen explores the history, lore, and legend behind the Pfister Hotel ghost. -
This year marks the 30th anniversary of an effort to save the peregrine falcon population in Wisconsin. We Energies has been working with the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Project to bring back the raptors from the edge of extinction since the 1990s, when nest boxes were installed on the power plants.
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On this week’s Bubbler Talk, question asker Craig Steitz wanted to know about the history of music stores in Milwaukee.
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Attendees of the Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes will learn about the sinking of the Eastland, the deadliest maritime disaster on the Great Lakes; the lore behind the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and a few lesser-known shipwrecks as well.
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The website dontcallthepolice.com lists alternative resources to calling 911 for over 70 cities including Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha.
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In April, the plant named Hoot became the first ever titan arum, or corpse flower, to bloom in the UW-Milwaukee Biological Sciences Greenhouse.
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On this week’s Bubbler Talk, question asker Craig Steitz wanted to know about the history of music stores in Milwaukee.There’s a rich history of music…
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Lake Effect On-Site normally is about getting out into the community and taking a deep dive into a specific area of Milwaukee. But at a time when…
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Over the last week, the national spotlight has been on Kenosha, Wis. Demonstrations began there after Jacob Blake was shot in the back by Kenosha police…
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As frequent travelers know, or just about anyone who’s ever stayed in a hotel, you’re pretty much guaranteed some reading material in your room. The Bible…
