Tara Calligan
Reporter/Producer/Social Media ManagerEmail: Tcalligan@wgcu.org
Twitter: @TlCalligan
Tara Calligan is an award-winning journalist and a public media producer, writer and online content creator at WGCU. She started her public media journey as a news intern for the station in 2015 and has been cranking out content ever since.
She has presented at several PBS and NPR conferences, including PBS TechCon. In January 2021, she became a member of PBS' Media & Marketing Advisory Council, providing direct, local station feedback to the Public Broadcasting Service.
She is one of the hosts and producers for the podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music, which brings out the guests’ personalities, and personal histories, by mining the connections music has made during their lifetimes. She is also a producer for WGCU's radio talk show Gulf Coast Life. When she is not writing up a storm, editing, or booking shows, she assumes the alter ego Moria Midnight, Monarch of Macabre, a late-night horror host on WGCU HDTV.
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Nearly 38,000 children in Florida were detained for involuntary psychiatric exams in 2018-2019. A new report from Florida Weekly states that's an increase of more than 150% in 18 years. Advocates hope two proposals in front of the state legislature will provide better protections. -
Learn how reporting to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — or VAERS — works, what happens when serious adverse events are reported, and the rates at which serious adverse events are happening following COVID vaccinations. -
Learn how reporting to the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System — or VAERS — works, what happens when serious adverse events are reported, and the rates at which serious adverse events are happening following COVID vaccinations.
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A design by multimedia artist Cecilia Lueza that embodies the concepts of dreams, hope and civil rights will be constructed at the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Veronica S. Shoemaker Boulevards. -
The proposed “Safe Waterways Act” by Calusa Waterkeeper would require the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) to issue health advisories and post and maintain warning notices at “public bathing places” where the water has been found to contain fecal bacteria. -
The Southwest Florida Music and Education Center in Naples will soon be offering neurodivergent young adults a truly unique, comprehensive music education program to help them pursue careers in the music industry. -
Annabelle Tometich, food writer and critic, outlines 14 restaurants in Southwest Florida that, she says, are doing things right under the most trying circumstances. -
Project SEARCH is a program that helps students with intellectual and developmental disabilities transition from school to work. Hear from two women who make Project SEARCH possible, an a current Project SEARCH intern, and a former intern. -
Mona Awad discusses her brilliant novel ALL'S WELL, about pain, power, and Shakespeare. This conversation took place at the Miami Book Fair.
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Lee County officials estimate about $1.1 million dollars in damages with more than one hundred mobile homes damaged and some 30 mobile homes destroyed. This was just one of a number of tornadoes that touched down across Southwest Florida on Sunday as a massive cold front moved across the state.
