Norman Stockwell serves as WORT's Operations Coordinator. He has been at the station in music and news programming since 1983. In addition to working as a journalist in the U.S., Cuba, Nicaragua & Mexico, Norm has been involved in the collective management of two Madison institutions: Lakeside Press and Mifflin Street Co-op. Norm has coordinated community radio coverage at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in 2002, 2003, and 2005; the Polycentric Forum in Caracas, Venezuela in 2006; the WSF in Nairobi in 2007; and the US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia.

A Public Affair is WORT's daily hour-long talk program. It aims to engage listeners in a conversation on social, cultural, and political issues of importance. The guests range from local activists and scholars to notable national and international figures.