Emily Files
Editor/Project LeaderAs an editor and special projects leader, Emily works with reporters and producers to craft compelling stories and interviews. She also coordinates WUWM’s popular Bubbler Talk series, and oversees election projects, including our voter guides.
Emily came to WUWM in 2018, and worked for more than five years as the station’s education reporter before moving into an editing role full-time.
Prior to WUWM, Emily reported for four years at small radio stations in southeast Alaska.
Emily studied journalism at Emerson College in Boston, where she reported her very first radio stories for college station WERS.
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It’s mostly apartments and offices now, but Milwaukee’s downtown Plankinton Building used to be a grand shopping arcade. -
Much of southern Wisconsin is under an extreme cold watch Jan. 22-24. Here are Milwaukee-area resources to help you stay safe during bitter cold. -
What does it take to navigate the U.S. immigration system? Hear from two sisters who went from undocumented, to DACA recipients, and finally, to green card holders. -
One Bay View building is not like the others. Bay View Terrace is 25-story condominium surrounded by single family homes. -
An all-girls Catholic High School opened on Milwaukee's northwest side in 1965. Six years later, it shut down. What happened? -
With incumbent Gov. Tony Evers not running for reelection, it's a wide open field. -
The disaster declarations, announced Thursday, will provide federal funding to Wisconsin, Kansas, North Carolina, and North Dakota, as well as tribes in Montana and South Dakota. -
IMPACT 211, the social services helpline, has received more than 3,000 reports of structural damage from residents in southeast Wisconsin after weekend storms that caused extensive flooding. -
The City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works said Sunday morning that crews “are working nonstop assessing damage and clearing flooded areas.” -
A Bubbler Talk listener sent us a question asking why Wisconsin's only urban state forest, Havenwoods, was created.
