Amid ongoing budget shortages and facing potential federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio has notified at least 15 staff members that they will be laid off.
Four radio programs, including the nationally syndicated “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” will also end, in what WPR Director Sarah Ashworth described in a Friday letter to sustaining members obtained by WPR as an attempt to address “multiple challenges” and an “urgent need to adapt our services.”
WPR leadership referred all media requests to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a parent organization for WPR. Representatives from UW-Madison referred to a public release from WPR…