April 6, 2026: Caitlin Andrews appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting on Maine’s growing pool of money from taxes on home sales. Watch the appearance.
April 2, 2026: In this month’s edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour, editor Kate Cough spoke to housing reporter Caitlin Andrews, education reporter Kristian Moravec and rural government reporter Daniel O’Connor about some of their recent reporting. Listen to the episode.
March 30, 2026: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her reporting on the impacts of the Trump administration eliminating, then returning, some money for mental health workers in Maine schools. Watch the appearance.
March 23, 2026: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his reporting on how houses of worship in Maine are working to increase security. Watch the appearance.
March 16, 2026: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her reporting on a Maine educator revamping how kids learn to read. Watch the appearance.
March 9, 2026: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting on opioid settlement spending by local governments in 2025. Watch the appearance.
March 7, 2026: In this month’s edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour, environmental reporter Emmett Gartner and religion, society and politics reporter Sean Scott spoke about their recent reporting. Listen to the episode.
March 2, 2026: Daniel O’Connor appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on how Wilton is using artificial intelligence for its police reports. Watch the appearance.
February 23, 2026: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his co-reporting on how Maine law enforcement identification practices are largely guided by custom and individual department policies, not legal requirements. Watch the appearance.
February 16, 2026: Rose Lundy appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting on how Maine is exploring ways to untether itself from federal vaccine rollbacks. Watch the appearance.
February 9, 2026: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on how tariffs are helping this Maine sawmill but creating more uncertainty for others. Watch the appearance.
February 2, 2026: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting on how Evaristo Kalonji, an asylum seeker from Angola who has no criminal record, vanished from South Portland during the recent immigration enforcement and how he turned up in one detention center, then another. Watch the appearance.
January 26, 2026: Emily Hedegard appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her story on one woman’s experience giving birth after the closest hospital stopped delivering babies. Watch the appearance.
January 23, 2026: Rose Lundy appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her experiences covering ICE activity in Portland this month. Watch the appearance.
January 19, 2026: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting on the upcoming start of Maine’s red flag law. Watch the appearance.
January 12, 2026: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her reporting on how the National Council on Teacher Quality gave poor ratings to three of Maine’s public universities and how the universities are pushing back. Watch the appearance.
January 1, 2026: In the January edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour, executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm and Monitor Local editor Judy Meyer discuss the newsroom’s new local reporting initiative in western and downeast Maine, diving into the origins of the idea and what coverage has looked like so far. Listen to the episode.
December 22, 2025: Daniel O’Connor appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his reporting, for The Maine Monitor and Bangor Daily News, on how nearly half of Maine’s counties are behind on their audits. Watch the appearance.
December 15, 2025: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on how Maine’s loggers are being impacted by tariffs. Watch the appearance.
December 8, 2025: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his reporting on how the number of Maine children who are homeschooled has jumped since the pandemic. Watch the appearance.
December 4, 2025: In the December edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Rose Lundy discussed her reporting on older Mainers and opioid addiction, as well as her reporting on local groups working to combat men’s loneliness. Listen to the episode.
December 1, 2025: Rose Lundy appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting that revealed the number of Medicare patients in Maine who received buprenorphine treatment for their addiction to opioids increased about 70 percent between 2019 and 2023. Watch the appearance.
November 24, 2025: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how The MOSS Center, housed at the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus, is working with local governments as they decide how to spend their opioid settlement funds and that the organization will publish its first public report on local spending next year. Watch the appearance.
November 17, 2025: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Maine food pantries saw demand spike amid SNAP uncertainty. Watch the appearance.
November 10, 2025: MCPIR executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm and Monitor Local editor Judy Meyer appeared on WMTW to discuss the new Monitor Local initiative. Watch the appearance.
November 10, 2025: Josh Keefe appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on a judge’s rebuke of a slow district attorney’s office and three recent case examples that show how cases can languish or prompt sanctions when prosecutors fail to turn over discovery. Watch the appearance.
November 6, 2025: In the November edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Report for America corps member Daniel O’Connor (who reports for The Maine Monitor and Bangor Daily News) discussed his reporting on the budget crisis in Washington County and the Maine school districts that have voted to change policies around transgender students. Listen to the episode.
November 3, 2025: Daniella Diaz, a reporter for NOTUS, spoke with News Center Maine about the government shutdown and how although Sens. Collins and King caucus with different parties, they’re unified on the shutdown. The Maine Monitor recently partnered with NOTUS on coverage of Maine’s congressional delegation. Watch the appearance.
October 27, 2025: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her reporting on the Maine students sinking to the bottom and how leaders struggled to respond as more Maine students began to flounder. Watch the appearance.
October 20, 2025: Josh Keefe appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his reporting that, in nearly all cases, Maine’s largest contracted provider of child welfare visitation services failed to schedule the visits within the state’s required time frame. Watch the appearance.
October 13, 2025: Alexa Foust appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her story that examined the difficulty of holding daycares accountable regarding abuse and neglect when they are responsible for reporting themselves. Watch the appearance.
October 6, 2025: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to talk about Maine’s lawsuit against a protester for allegedly disrupting services at Planned Parenthood and about a small group pushing to criminalize abortion. Watch the appearance.
October 2, 2025: In the October edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Maine Monitor government accountability reporter Josh Keefe and Bangor Daily News deputy investigative editor Callie Ferguson take listeners behind the scenes of their recent investigation into a York County arrest. Listen to the episode.
September 29, 2025: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how more older Mainers died by gun suicide than they did in car crashes over a 15-year period — numbers representing a troubling trend playing out in rural communities across the country. Watch the appearance.
September 22, 2025: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to talk about what led to Maine having its worst August for wildfires in 20 years. Watch the appearance.
September 19, 2025: Josh Keefe and Callie Ferguson appeared on News Center Maine to discuss their multi-part investigation into an arrest by a Maine State Police trooper that pinned a handcuffed man to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face. Watch the appearance.
September 15, 2025: Julia Tilton appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Maine’s forest carbon credit market works. Watch the appearance.
September 8, 2025: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how Maine schools are using generative AI in the classroom. Watch the appearance.
September 7, 2025: MCPIR executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm moderated a Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations talk at the Camden Opera House on how soft power is an essential element of foreign relations that featured French cultural counselor Mohamed Bouabdallah and American classical singer and cultural diplomat Carla Canales. Listen to the conversation.
September 4, 2025: In the September edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Maine Monitor summer reporting interns Stacey Zhang and Yasmeen Khan spoke about their experiences trying to make a career in the field of journalism and how their Gen Z colleagues are consuming the news. Listen to this episode.
September 1, 2025: Stacey Zhang appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how Maine’s space industry is looking to the sea for launches. Watch the appearance.
August 25, 2025: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Maine churches are reckoning with fear of immigration raids. Watch the appearance.
August 18, 2025: Yasmeen Khan appeared on News Center Maine to talk about a new law that expands Maine’s definition of domestic abuse. Watch the appearance.
August 11, 2025: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how environmental researchers in Maine are grappling with federal funding changes. Watch the appearance.
August 7, 2025: Sawyer Loftus, a reporter for the Bangor Daily News, discussed his investigation with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network (which has been republished by The Maine Monitor) into USDA housing loan program foreclosures in Maine during this month’s episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU. Listen to the episode.
August 4, 2025: Yasmeen Khan appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how Maine’s tight rental market is keeping domestic violence survivors in shelters longer. Watch the appearance.
July 28, 2025: Sean Scott appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how dozens of Maine faith leaders testified against anti-transgender bills. Watch the appearance.
July 21, 2025: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about what happens to school budgets when Mainers vote ‘no’. Watch the appearance.
July 14, 2025: Stacey Zhang appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Maine is winding down housing programs for asylum seekers. Watch the appearance.
July 7, 2025: Adrienne Washington appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her story that covered concerns Modivcare riders have with the company and the lawsuit over a decision to award Modivcare a statewide transportation contract. Watch the appearance.
July 3, 2025: Josh Keefe joined this month’s episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about his recent reporting on Maine’s child welfare system. Listen to the episode.
June 30, 2025: Yasmeen Khan appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Maine’s domestic violence resource centers are in a precarious situation as uncertainty looms over federal grant funding. Watch the appearance.
June 23, 2025: Josh Keefe appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on a Presque Isle child welfare case that offers a rare glimpse inside Maine’s secretive child welfare system. Watch the appearance.
June 16, 2025: Chris D’Angelo appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on what the public lands fight happening at the federal level means for Maine. Watch the appearance.
June 9, 2025: Benjamin Cassidy appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his reporting on how rumble strips are saving lives — and money — on rural Maine roads. Watch the appearance.
June 5, 2025: Rose Lundy and Kristian Moravec joined this month’s episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about their recent reporting on Maine’s changing workforce. Listen to the episode.
June 2, 2025: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her reporting on a Somerset County town that may withdraw from its school district. Watch the appearance.
May 26, 2025: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting that examined how Maine’s heat pump boom has been promising for rural workforce development and the uncertainties that lie ahead. Watch the appearance.
May 19, 2025: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to talk about a bill that would automatically seal certain criminal records. Watch the appearance.
May 14, 2025: The Maine Monitor and Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs at Colby College hosted a panel discussion, moderated by Maine Monitor reporter Rose Lundy, with health care experts on the state of health care access in Maine. Watch the discussion.
May 12, 2025: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to talk about his reporting on the Washington County wreath-making company that has been fined nearly $16,000 for worker housing violations. Watch the appearance.
May 5, 2025: Josh Keefe appeared on News Center Maine to discuss legislation that would change the way Maine’s child protection system defines abuse and neglect. Watch the appearance.
May 1, 2025: Rose Lundy and Josh Keefe joined this month’s episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about their recent reporting. Listen to the episode.
April 28, 2025: Adrienne Washington appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how USDA funding uncertainty is impacting Maine farmers. Watch the appearance.
April 21, 2025: Joyce Kryszak appeared on News Center Maine to discuss the worries of Maine businesses as the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown ramps up. Watch the appearance.
April 14, 2025: Rose Lundy appeared on News Center Maine to talk about two bills that aim to keep veterans’ homes solvent and aging Mainers in their homes. Watch the appearance.
April 10, 2025: Kate Cough and Emily Hedegard joined this month’s edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about Maine’s maternity care crisis. Listen to the episode.
April 7, 2025: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to discuss legislation that could allow Hancock County towns to take ownership of abandoned dams. Watch the appearance.
March 31, 2025: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how federal funding cuts could impact Maine research organizations. Watch the appearance.
March 24, 2025: Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how lawmakers aim to tackle Maine’s teacher shortage from multiple angles. Watch the appearance.
March 17, 2025: Emily Hedegard appeared on News Center Maine to talk about the increased use of midwives and potential solutions to Maine’s maternal care crisis. Watch the appearance.
March 10, 2025: Alexa Foust appeared on News Center Maine to discuss her reporting on child care providers alleging the state is months behind in reimbursement payments. Watch the appearance.
March 6, 2025: This month’s edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU features a panel discussion about the future of Maine’s dams, including the dams on Silver Lake, Alamoosook Lake, and Toddy Pond. Listen to the episode.
March 3, 2025: Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to talk about a proposed school for teens in recovery in Aroostook County. Watch the appearance.
February 27, 2025: Kate Cough participated in a discussion on Maine Calling about maternal health in Maine and the challenges Mainers face in getting good maternal health care. Listen to her appearance (around the 11:25 mark).
February 24, 2025: Kate Cough appeared on News Center Maine to talk about the closure of birthing units across Maine and the impacts the closures are having in rural areas. Watch the appearance.
February 17, 2025: Rose Lundy appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Maine’s childhood vaccination rates have benefited from the elimination of nonmedical exemptions. Watch the appearance.
February 10, 2025: Stephanie McFeeters appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how The Maine Monitor worked with the Investigative Reporting Workshop to track how Maine counties are spending $261 million of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. Watch the appearance.
February 6, 2025: Rose Lundy discussed Maine’s long-term care challenges in this month’s episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU. Listen to the episode.
February 4, 2025: Emmett Gartner moderated a discussion in Bucksport with local and state experts on the future of Maine’s dams, including the dams on Silver Lake, Alamoosook Lake, and Toddy Pond. Watch the discussion.
February 3, 2025: Emmett Gartner appeared on News Center Maine to discuss how Hancock County lawmakers are planning legislation that would address dam abandonment in response to a debate over three Bucksport-area dams. Watch the appearance.
January 2, 2025: This month’s edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU is an excerpt from an event about indigent defense that The Monitor held at the University of Maine at Augusta. Listen to the episode.
December 5, 2024: Emmett Gartner talked about his recent series on Maine’s dams in the eighth episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU. Listen to the episode.
December 3, 2024: Josh Keefe and Stephanie McFeeters moderated panel discussions during a day-long indigent defense symposium co-hosted by The Maine Monitor and the Maine Indigent Defense Center. Watch the discussions.
November 7, 2024: Alexa Foust talked about her investigation into violations at child care facilities as part of the seventh episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU. Listen to the episode.
October 22, 2024: Executive Director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm spoke about the case for local news in our nation’s democracy at the Belfast Free Library. Watch the presentation.
October 17, 2024: Kate Cough was interviewed on Let’s Connect Greater Portland about her project on Maine’s saltwater marshes. Listen to the interview.
October 3, 2024: In the sixth episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Josh Keefe talked about the fight for workforce housing on Mount Desert Island. Listen to the episode.
Sept. 30, 2024: Executive Director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm moderated the Belfast City Council Candidate Forum. Watch the candidate forum.
Sept. 23, 2024: Kate Cough, in a Mitchell Center talk, explored the past and future of energy in Maine. Watch the presentation.
Sept. 17, 2024: In a panel event moderated by executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm at the Belfast Free Library, Kate Cough, Emmett Gartner and Annie Ropeik talked about reporting on resilience and solutions in Maine’s changing climate. Watch the panel discussion.
Sept. 5, 2024: In the fifth episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Emily Bader talked about a pair of unique addiction recovery approaches happening in Maine. Listen to the episode.
August 1, 2024: Kate Cough joined the fourth episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about her new series on saltwater marshes in Maine. Listen to the episode.
July 19, 2024: Kate Cough appeared on WMTW’s Total Maine Sunday show to discuss her project on Maine’s saltwater marshes. Watch Kate’s appearance.
July 4, 2024: Josh Keefe and Rose Lundy appeared on the third episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about their recent reporting. Listen to the episode.
June 25, 2024: Rose Lundy was interviewed on the Healthy Maine Talks podcast, from the Maine Public Health Association, about her investigation into Maine’s long-term care facilities. Listen to the interview.
June 20, 2024: Samantha Hogan was interviewed on a CNN podcast about her investigation into Maine’s probate court system. Listen to the interview.
June 6, 2024: Emily Bader, Emmett Gartner and Josh Keefe joined the second episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU to talk about their recent reporting. Listen to the episode.
May 17, 2024: Kate Cough interviewed Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows about the 2024 elections, including the voting process and election security. Watch the interview.
May 2, 2024: The inaugural episode of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour aired on WERU with Kate Cough, Stephanie McFeeters and Rose Lundy talking about The Monitor’s reporting on assisted living facilities, Maine’s “yellow flag” law, the lack of attorneys for families dealing with the child welfare system, climate change and some of the issues facing the coast after the recent storms. Listen to the episode.
March 27, 2024: Kate Cough moderated a panel discussion on Maine’s saltwater wetlands. Watch the discussion.
March 21, 2024: Rose Lundy was interviewed by News Center Maine about her reporting on nursing home closures. Watch Rose’s appearance.
March 14, 2024: Emily Bader was interviewed by WERU about her reporting on pharmacy closures. Listen to Emily’s appearance.
March 4, 2024: Genius Black, host of the Maine’s Black Future podcast, appeared on News Center Maine to discuss his podcast, Maine’s Black Future, that is distributed through The Maine Monitor. Watch Genius’ appearance.
Jan. 12, 2024: Emily Bader and Emmett Gartner appeared on WERU to discuss their reporting on how Maine law enforcement departments respond to mental health welfare calls. Listen to the interview with Emily and Emmett.
Dec. 6, 2023: Samantha Hogan sat down with WERU to discuss her reporting on the state’s probate courts, adult guardianships and estates. Listen to Samantha’s appearance.
Nov. 21, 2023: Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm talks about the origins of The Maine Monitor and its publisher the Maine Center for Public Interesting Reporting with co-founder Naomi Schalit. Watch the discussion.
Nov. 17, 2023: Rose Lundy spoke with WERU to discuss her reporting with ProPublica about Maine’s residential care facilities. Listen to Rose’s appearance.
Nov. 1, 2023: Emily Bader discussed Maine’s yellow flag gun law with “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio in the wake of the Lewiston mass shooting. Listen to Emily’s appearance.
Aug. 15, 2023: David Dahl moderated a discussion with veteran journalists James and Deborah Fallows about small town America, and what the Fallows learned about small-town communities while working on their best-selling book. Watch the discussion.
Aug. 11, 2023: Kate Cough was interviewed by Science Friday on her story, done in collaboration with TIME, about the debate surrounding whether a $1.5 billion lithium deposit found in Western Maine should be mined. Listen to Kate’s appearance.
Aug. 7, 2023: Kate Cough discussed lithium’s role in Maine’s geological makeup alongside two geologists on Maine Calling. Listen to Kate’s appearance.
March 28, 2023: David Dahl participated in a panel at the University of Maine Farmington about the role of nonprofit journalism in Maine alongside representatives from the Harpswell Anchor and Daily Bulldog. Watch David’s appearance.
November 2022 & January 2023: Kate Cough and a group of panelists discussed how Maine’s rising seas will impact coastal communities, based on Kate’s “Unstoppable Ocean” series. Watch the November and January discussions.
November 2022 & January 2023: Kate Cough and a group of panelists discussed how Maine’s rising seas will impact coastal communities, based on Kate’s “Unstoppable Ocean” series. Watch the November and January discussions.
Oct. 13, 2022: David Dahl was interviewed by Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy on their “What Works: The Future of Local News” podcast, through Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, about public interest journalism in Maine. Listen to David’s appearance.
June 15, 2022: Barbara Walsh appeared on WMTW to talk about her series on Maine’s transgender community. Watch Barbara’s appearance.
May 11, 2022: Kate Cough joined a roundtable discussion hosted by WERU on Maine’s changing media landscape and what it means for democracy. Other panelists were from the Mount Desert Islander, the University of Maine and WERU. Listen to Kate’s appearance.
Jan. 27, 2022: Samantha Hogan joined Maine Public Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz to discuss her investigation that uncovered jailed defendants are not always afforded their constitutional right to private phone calls with their attorneys. Listen to Samantha’s appearance.
October 2021: Kate Cough discussed her reporting on a $1.5 billion lithium deposit being found in Maine on News Center Maine and on Maine Public.