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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The Fort Myers nonprofit visual and performing arts center Alliance for the Arts is collecting stories as part of an oral history project called, “Storm Stories” from anyone who experienced Hurricane Ian. -
Dig into the history of the Cuban sandwich with the authors of the new book “The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers.” -
More than 3,000 members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida live on six reservations throughout the state with nearly 700 living on the Big Cypress Reservation. Yet their way of life today remains a mystery to many who visit and live in Florida. -
A sash reportedly worn by Seminole warrior Osceola at the time of his capture by the U.S. Army in the early 19th Century is on display for the first time at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, but not for long. -
As voters continue to cast their ballots across Southwest Florida, Election officials in Collier and Lee counties are reminding residents to research their polling location before getting in line and to bring along some patience. -
Dig into the history of the Cuban sandwich with the authors of the new book “The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers.”
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A coalition of voter rights groups has successfully petitioned to add a new Secured Ballot Intake Station in the Dunbar community in Fort Myers. The new drop box will be accessible at the Dunbar-Jupiter Hammon Public Library in Fort Myers from 9 a.m. to 6 pm. Sunday, Nov. 6 and Monday Nov.7. -
Polling locations in Lee County have been reduced from 97 to only 13 due to impacts from Hurricane Ian. Lee County Elections officials are urging voters to cast their ballots before November 8 to avoid long wait times. -
November is Native American Heritage Month, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is marking the occasion with its annual American Indian Arts Celebration on November 4-5. -
A website launched by the League of Women Voters provides detailed, nonpartisan information voters may need to compare candidates, review voting procedures, and understand ballot initiatives.
