WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR has been recognized for its journalism in 2025 by Hearken, Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association, the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association and the Milwaukee Press Clubs.
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
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
Milwaukee Press Clubs
- 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
