WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR has been recognized for its journalism in 2025 by Hearken, the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association, the Milwaukee Press Club, the Public Media Journalists Association, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association.
Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association
- Winner: Excellence in Writing - Beauty and pain: Dispatches from the Palestinian territories by Milwaukee residents, Jimmy Gutierrez
- Winner: Hard News - Come out to the community: Milwaukee groups call for shared risk in wake of Judge Dugan's arrest, Sam Woods
- Winner: News Series - Yemeni Coffee in Brew City, Maayan Silver & Eddie Morales
Hearken
- Champions of Curiosity - Deepening Engagement
Midwest Broadcast Journalism Association
- First Place: Broadcast Writing - WUWM Broadcast Writing: Cheese, Coffee and Fashion, Maayan Silver
- FIrst Place: Sports Reporting - Hit the road, Jack! Lumberjills chip their way into timber sports, Maayan Silver, Katherine Kokal, Maria Peralta-Arellano
- First Place - Swing State of the Union, Sam Woods, Joy Powers, Becky Mortensen, Emily Files
- Award of Merit: Social Media - Who's behind 'The Unsung Hero,' the 6-story mural in Milwaukee's Third Ward?, Teran Powell, Samia Saeed
- Award of Merit: Broadcast Writing - Violence at the court: the fight over Act 10, Joy Powers, Sam Woods
- Award of Merit: Documentary/Special - Lake Effect On-Site: Forest Home, Lake Effect Team
- Award of Merit: Podcast - Status Pending, WUWM Staff
- Award of Merit: Team Multimedia Storytelling: News - Historic Milwaukee-area flooding, August 2025, WUWM Staff
Milwaukee Press Club
- Gold: Best Original Podcast - Status Pending, WUWM Staff
- Gold: Best Regularly-Scheduled Audio Program - Lake Effect 12/23/25, Lake Effect TeamSilver: Best Coverage of a
- Gold: Best Short Soft Feature Story - Students shy away from disagreement in class. One Marquette program is changing that, Katherine Kokal
- Gold: Best Writing in an Audio Story - An artist’s love letter to Milwaukee paleteros, Jimmy Gutierrez, Paula Lovo
- Silver: Best Long Hard Feature Story - Dewey’s road to healing: A Wisconsin Native American boarding school survivor’s story, Maria Peralta-Arellano, Jimmy Gutierrez
- Silver: Best Single or Ongoing Breaking News Story - Shorewood resident takes right to enjoy Lake Michigan shoreline to court, Susan Bence
- Silver: Best Series Reporting - Feeding the City: The People Powering Local Food, Maria Peralta-Arellano
- Silver: Best Short Hard Feature Story - ‘A lifeline’ lost: Trump admin cuts program for WI students who are deaf and blind, Katherine Kokal
- Silver: Best Use of Audio Within a Report - Milwaukee musicians take to the roof for jazz impressions of ‘Fiddler’, Maayan Silver
- Silver: Best Writing in an Audio Story - Keeping family apple orchard afloat – a labor of love and contending with climate change, Susan Bence
- Bronze: Best Long Hard Feature Story - Ethics v. Money, Sam Woods, Joy Powers, Emily Files, Becky Mortensen
- Bronze: Best Long Soft Feature Story - Milwaukee conguera, Bony Benavides, is shaping music one drum strike at a time, Maayan Silver
- Bronze: Best Original Podcast - Swing State of the Union, Sam Woods, Joy Powers, Emily Files, Becky Mortensen
- Bronze: Best Series Reporting - Yemeni Coffee in Brew City, Eddie Morales, Maayan Silver
- Bronze: Best Short Hard Feature Story - Project by student journalists at UW-Milwaukee highlight cases of missing people of color, Teran Powell
Public Media Journalists Association
- First Place: Cross-Platform Storytelling - WUWM Digital Storytelling
- First Place: Narrative/Produced Program - Status Pending
- Second Place: Enterprise - Status Pending
- Second Place: Narrative/Produced Program - Swing State of the Union
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association
- First Place: Best Continuing Coverage - Communities Grapple with "Forever Chemicals", Susan Bence
- First Place: Best Digital Breaking News Coverage - Historic Milwaukee-Area Flooding, August 2025, Content Team
- First Place: Best Digital Story Presentation - What Happened to the Victims of the Bay View Massacre?, Joy Powers
- First Place: Best Use of Station Social Media Platforms - WUWM Social Media Platforms , Digital and Content Teams
- First Place: Best Interview - Making Wisconsin: How Sanctuary Movements Have Succeeded and Failed, Audrey Nowakowski
- First Place: Best News Writing - Unearthing the History of Milwaukee's Celery Farms, Xcaret Nuñez
- Second Place: Best Digital Creator - Jimmy Gutierrez, Valeria Navarro Villegas, Samia Saeed
- Second Place: Best News Writing - Violence at the Court: The Fight Over Act 10, Joy Powers, Sam Woods
- Second Place: Best Spot News - Milwaukee Groups Call for Shared Risk in Wake of Judge Dugan's Arrest, Sam Woods
- Second Place: Best Website - WUWM.com - Michelle Maternowski and Valeria Navarro Villegas
- Third Place: Best Commercial or Underwriting Announcement - Paul's Jewelers, Rob Larry
- Third Place: Best Continuing Coverage - Milwaukee Flood Coverage, Content Team
- Third Place: Best Hard News/Investigative - As UWM's Atmospheric Science Program Ends, Its Students Face an Uncertain Future, Xcaret Nuñez
- Third Place: Best News Writing: Violence at the Court: The Fight Over Act 10, Joy Powers and Sam Woods
