Becky Mortensen
Lake Effect Executive ProducerBecky Mortensen joined WUWM as the Executive Producer of Lake Effect in November 2019. Becky led a rebrand effort for Lake Effect in 2020 and was very excited to grow to a team of five in 2023. She is enthusiastic about Lake Effect’s mission to inform, intrigue and entertain listeners and is committed to Lake Effect providing engaging and uplifting stories for the Milwaukee community.
Lake Effect has been recognized with numerous awards during Becky's tenure including several for best podcast and radio show.
Before working at WUWM, she was an 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 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.
She also likes plants and horror movies.
Contact Becky at: rlm@uwm.edu
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Krampus is a horned creature that scares or abducts children who don't behave around the holidays. There's an event to celebrate the holiday folktale in Milwaukee on Dec. 4.
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Wandering Wisconsin shares places to go and things to do this winter that celebrate Native American culture.
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Wisconsin's Republican candidate for attorney general, District Attorney Eric Toney, didn't agree to an interview with WUWM. Here are Toney's policy stances as we understand them.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel crime reporter Ashley Luthern joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to explain what parole is, how it works, and what a governor can and cannot do when it comes to releasing people on parole under Wisconsin's truth in sentencing system.
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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.
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The Spirits of the Silent City events at Forest Home Cemetery will offer guided tours by performers dressed and acting as some of the most notable people buried at the cemetery, like the beer barons.
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Whether it is enjoying peak fall colors or visiting a pumpkin patch, Wandering Wisconsin suggests some places to go for a fall getaway.
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There are two advisory referendums on the 2022 midterm ballot in Milwaukee County — one about semi-automatic firearms and another about marijuana.
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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.