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Frederica Freyberg

Frederica Freyberg is the anchor of Here and Now, WPT's live weekly program that covers news concerning state issues and feature segments about matters in local communities throughout the state. Freyberg also is a reporter on WPT's weekly magazine program In Wisconsin.

With an extensive journalistic career that includes more than 20 years as a reporter, Freyberg initially worked as a reporter for WFRV-TV in Green Bay. She moved on to Madison's WMTV-TV, where she produced, reported and anchored. At Milwaukee Public Television, Freyberg was a reporter, producer and host. While there, she worked with WPT on Wisconsin Week as a producer and substitute anchor. Freyberg returned to commercial news at WISN-TV in Milwaukee as a reporter before moving to WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, where some of her reporting assignments included covering western Wisconsin. Before coming to WPT full-time, Freyberg was the state government reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio.

Among other reporting awards, Freyberg holds a coveted Midwest Emmy for her work at Milwaukee Public Television. In 2007, she was names one of the top journalists in the state by the Milwaukee Press Club.