Mike Crane, director of Wisconsin Public Radio, will resign after more than 11 years with the organization.
He will step down Oct. 1, according to a press release.
“I’m not the first, nor the millionth, person to find themselves contemplating the future during this pandemic,” Crane told Current in an email. “It’s been a truly stressful couple of years both personally and professionally, so I plan on restoring my energy and spirit, and then deciding what’s next.”
Wisconsin Public Media Interim Director Heather Reese and Educational Communications Board Executive Director Marta Bechtol plan to name an interim director of WPR before Crane steps down. WPM and ECB share supervisory responsibilities for WPR’s director.
Crane told Current that he will “be around for a few months after I step down to help as needed at WPR.”
I am so disappointed that WI Public Radio persists on giving feet to the insane notion of ‘Race’… I get it that it gives you huge amounts of mileage for your various departments, programs, professors, but come on!!! Scientists from the forties and earlier have pointed out loud and clear that there is only one race. It comes from the top down, this perpetual focus on some myth called ‘Race.’. There are ethnic groups, but it’s YOU insisting there is the Whites, the Blacks, etc. Please stop. Horrible what you’re doing.