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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Books on LGBTQ+ topics are currently being restricted in schools across Florida due to proposed legislation. Educators share how access to similar books helped them understand their sexual identities growing up. -
Since 2011 a national nonprofit has been offering flights in an old Boeing Steadman biplane to seniors and veterans, providing them with a thrilling reminder of the past. Page Field in Fort Myers is one of their regular stops. -
The Immokalee Foundation’s Career Pathways Program offers educational scholarships and unique job training to bolster the future of Southwest Florida's workforce. -
A new, larger-than-life public art exhibit "The Face of Immokalee" captures the true face of the community with black and white portraits of residents. -
Is seafood safe to eat during a red tide? As varying levels of the toxic algae continue to float along the coast of Southwest Florida, get the answers from an expert at the University of Florida. -
Bob Kealing's new book “Good Day Sunshine: How the Beatles Rocked Florida” explores the Beatles time in Florida in 1964, including two performances on The Ed Sullivan Show from a hotel in Miami just weeks after their New York debut. -
An inaugural food festival had curious eaters saying, “I can’t believe it’s not cod,” and learning the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle during Cape Coral’s first-ever Vegan Street Food Fest. -
Florida Gulf Coast University began installing the base of its new artificial reef, named Kimberly’s Reef, in the Gulf of Mexico. Groups of concrete culverts will create an 11-acre underwater laboratory for scientific experimentation and research. -
This teacher's seriously positive vibes are inspiring his students inside & outside of the classroomA high school teacher in Fort Myers is motivating and uplifting his students using the power of positive thinking. Visit Cypress Lake High School and the classroom of teacher, football coach, and self-published children’s book author, T.J. Nelson. -
Southwest Florida Eagle Cam has been livestreaming an intimate view of a North Fort Myers eagle’s nest since 2012. But with female eagle Harriet missing since February 2 after her two chicks hatched, the future of the eagle family is uncertain. Southwest Florida Eagle Cam co-founder Ginny Pritchett McSpadden joins us with an update on the the nest.
