Emma Auer
Senior Content ProducerEmma Auer is an award-winning reporter who joined WUGA as a full-time producer in 2024. She is also a graduate student in UGA's Romance Languages Department, studying French and Spanish. She covers the breadth of Northeast Georgia stories, from Athens City Hall to Winterville farmers' markets. Emma's work has also been heard on Georgia Public Broadcasting.
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The protest was one of several nationwide as part of the Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. -
Robert “Bob” Cowell was named the new manager of Athens-Clarke County by the Mayor and Commission on Tuesday night. -
Today on Athens News Matters, a historian discusses the abolitionist beliefs of Georgia’s founding father. Plus, what Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements suggest about changes to insurance access in the rest of the nation.
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Nearly every Georgian knows about James Oglethorpe, who founded the Georgia colony in 1733. Middle school students learn to this day that chattel slavery was prohibited in the colony because of him. But a new book argues that a little known history informed Oglethorpe’s abolitionist stance: his friendships with two formerly enslaved Black men. -
In the latest turn in a years-long attempt to open a rock quarry in Jackson County, a judge ruled this spring that the mining company Vulcan Materials could not go ahead with its project. -
A small group of protestors gathered at Fire Station Number 7 on the Eastside of Athens Thursday afternoon, where members of USRepresentative Mike Collins’ staff held office hours. -
The Fire Department says the individuals are pressuring business owners and employees to allow them to conduct so-called “inspections,” and then soliciting them for business. -
The Athens-Clarke County Commission passed a controversial budget last month to guide government spending this year. -
For many college students, studying abroad is a high point in their education, when they get to immerse themselves in a new culture. -
Georgia-produced films are nothing new, but thanks to a generous tax credit for filmmakers, it’s been widely noted that the Peach State has become an alternative to Hollywood
