Category: Newsroom & On-Air Staff

Sarah Hulett is Michigan Radio’s senior editor for enterprise and long-form reporting, helping reporters to do their best work. She’s also worked as newscast editor and spent five years as the station’s Detroit reporter, contributing to several reporting projects that won state and national awards.

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Rebecca Kruth is the host of Weekend Edition at Michigan Radio. She also co-hosts Michigan Radio’s weekly language podcast That’s What They Say with English professor Anne Curzan.
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Joe Linstroth is the executive producer of Stateside, Michigan Radio’s daily news magazine. Before joining the station, he was the founding senior producer of Current State, WKAR’s daily show. Joe began his public radio career working on WBEZ’s global affairs show, Worldview, and got his start in journalism writing film reviews and reporting for the Evanston RoundTable. Continue reading “Joe Linstroth | Executive Producer of Stateside”

Mercedes Mejia produces interviews for Stateside. She’s also and arts an culture reporter. Mercedes relocated to Michigan from New Mexico, where she earned her BA in Journalism and Latin American Studies. Continue reading “Mercedes Mejia | Reporter/Producer”

Imani Mixon is a Detroit-based writer. After graduating from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she returned to her hometown of Detroit to document its history and resurgence, with a particular focus on neighborhood change.

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Mike Perini is Michigan Radio’s midday host. He started at the station in 1996 as a temporary, fill-in announcer and was made the full-time midday host in 2002. Mike likes to spend his vacations visiting some of the offbeat places in America’s heartland. Continue reading “Mike Perini | Host – Middays”

Tracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Radio. She began her career at Michigan Radio as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
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Lindsey Scullen is the director and one of the producers of Stateside, Michigan Radio’s daily news show. She started at the station back in February of 2015 as a web intern for Stateside, went on to intern for The Environment Report, and then returned to Stateside full time in May of 2016. She graduated that year from the University of Michigan where she studied Comparative Literature, Spanish, Environmental Studies, and Complex Systems. She moonlights as a fairly poor, yet resolute, salsa dancer.
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Christina began her career in radio at Michigan Radio while a student at the University of Michigan. She was a producer and researcher for The Todd Mundt Show, and then hosted Weekend Edition. Continue reading “Christina Shockley | Host: All Things Considered”

Lindsey Smith is Michigan Radio’s Investigative Reporter. She previously served as Michigan Radio’s West Michigan Reporter.

Lindsey has worked as a reporter at radio stations in both West and Southeast Michigan, and her work has been repeatedly recognized by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and Michigan Associated Press. Her 2015 documentary about the Flint water crisis, Not Safe to Drink, won the station a national Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Award, and a Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Award. The Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named her “Young Journalist of the Year” in 2014.

She’s a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and Specs Howard School of Media Arts.

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