Hope Kirwan, BJ ’15, joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s La Crosse News Bureau in November 2015. She reports on issues and events in southwestern Wisconsin. She hosts the station’s weekly talk show, Newsmakers. While a student at the Missouri School of Journalism, Kirwan was the health and wealth reporter and a general assignment reporter at KBIA-FM, mid-Missouri’s NPR affiliate based at the University of Missouri. She earned several awards, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award.

Updated: August 1, 2019