Maayan Silver
News ReporterMaayan Silver has been a reporter with WUWM’s News Team since 2018. She joined WUWM as a volunteer at Lake Effect in 2016, while she was a practicing criminal defense attorney.
She believes everyone has an interesting story to share and is driven to get people from all backgrounds and perspectives on the air. Her work has been featured on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here and Now, and she’s been a guest with BBC Newshour, On Point, The Takeaway and the NPR Politics Podcast. She was part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2020 presidential election.
Maayan has a musical spirit, loves learning about different cultures and trying new foods, and has lapsed on her goal of making Milwaukee’s best hummus.
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There's love in the polar bear enclosure. A Madison zoo has introduced two bears as part of the Polar Bear Population Alliance. -
What we can take away from looking back at European society’s descent into systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and others? -
This week's Capitol Notes asks politics whiz JR Ross to lay out what's happening in Congress and how Wisconsin's representatives are approaching it. -
What does it mean to be Jewish? A new initiative in Wisconsin schools explores just that. -
Organizers arranged another emergency protest in Milwaukee Jan. 28, drawing over a thousand people. How does an event like this come together? -
The Wisconsin GOP-led Legislature wants to put a constitutional amendment before voters that would change the state government's approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. -
A group of Milwaukee tumblers has been soaring through the air and wowing crowds. One listener wanted to know more. -
WisconsinEye offers live and archived coverage of all branches of state government. An advocate for transparency explains that its shuttering comes at a great cost. -
Whether to build more power plants in Wisconsin to serve a growing number of data centers is a tricky question, according to a new Wisconsin Policy Forum report. -
Midterms. Governor's race. Control of the Legislature. Legislative action on big issues. All that's ahead in 2026. Find out about it on Capitol Notes.
