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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Former Democratic Public Service Commission candidate Patty Durand has been arrested and charged with stealing Georgia Power trade secrets. -
Early voting has started for the Public Service Commission—the statewide entity that regulates for-profit energy companies. In Athens, grassroots organizers are preparing to get out the vote. -
Data centers—facilities where up to thousands of computers store digital information—are popping up all over Georgia. Communities are also organizing to stop them. -
Today on Athens News Matters, the UGA researcher developing a vaccine for fungal infections, and we dive into the music of a new Athens voice.
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Music and visual art inspired one another on a recent October evening in Athens, where local musicians Tracy Brown and Jeff Lustig performed jazz and blues for the inaugural session of Music in the House. -
Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, the federal government shutdown is in its third week, with no end in sight. -
Georgians from around the state came to Athens to celebrate the white cane—a tool used by people who are blind to lead independent lives. -
The trestle is one part of the old Georgia Railroad, now the site of a partially finished multi-use path called the Firefly Trail. -
Today on Athens News Matters, a north Athens neighborhood faces dire conditions. What advocates are asking for, and more.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report. It came down to the wire, but federal officials approved a temporary extension of Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program.
