Judith Ruiz-Branch/Wisconsin News Connection
Judith Ruiz-Branch is an award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience as a reporter/producer for TV, radio, print and podcast news. She's also served as a Spanish spokesperson and led communications, media and public relations team's at various organizations in Chicago. She began her career at WGN-TV in Chicago and went on to work for various news outlets including WBEZ Radio, Crain's Chicago Business, the Chicago Tribune and WNIN Tri-State Media among others. Her bilingual reporting with WNIN earned her two Murrow Awards, most recently for innovation in the digital space. Her favorite stories to report on are health, human interest, equity, justice, and immigration.
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Nearly all wings of the Democratic party have now embraced universal childcare as a goal -
The class, called Criminal Justice System: A Lived Experience Perspective, aims to provide students with a real image of incarceration, from arrest to reentry -
One of the attorney’s representing the Bad River band feels such decisions endanger important public resources -
A Wisconsin agronomist is challenging proposed solutions presented to Congress on how to address the nation’s agriculture crisis -
Many people only reach out after their health has already escalated -
A new five-year study is quantifying the benefits of conservation practices such as cover cropping, using data from farmers across Wisconsin -
A Wisconsin professor is calling another potential government shutdown the ultimate test for the Democratic Party -
Special education professionals are hoping incentives and partnerships with universities will help to fill a major staffing shortage of teachers for the visually impaired -
The women’s recovery center underway at Bridge Street Mission in Wausau is adding a missing piece to the local puzzle, said Craig Vincent, the group’s executive director -
Nearly 30 Wisconsin communities are taking advantage of more than $159 million through state and Biden-era federal initiatives to remove lead pipes and expand access to clean drinking water
