Quinn Klinefelter
Senior News Editor, WDETQuinn Klinefelter is a host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET, anchoring midday newscasts and preparing reports for WDET, NPR and the BBC.
Klinefelter joined WDET in 1998 after earning a M.A. from the nation’s top-ranked journalism school, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and working as a sports correspondent for BBC Radio 4 and as a talk show host, anchor and reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio.
He has won over 50 awards for his work from groups including CBS Radio, the Associated Press, the Wisconsin and Michigan Association of Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Journalists. He has covered government and politics for WDET, including interviewing numerous presidential candidates, Michigan governors and every Detroit mayor elected in the 21st century. He also regularly reports on sports and entertainment, including covering 20 editions of the Indianapolis 500.
He was literally on top of the news when he finished an interview with then-Senator Bob Dole by stepping on his shoes.
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President Biden said during Tuesday's State of the Union address, that the nation is stronger now than a year ago. -
Detroit Democratic Congresswoman Rasida Tlaib plans to give a formal response outlining progressives’ take on this week’s State of the Union address -
Prosecutors took the rare step of charging James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the Oxford High School student accused of killing four classmates last year, with involuntary manslaughter. -
Pro-Ukrainian groups held rallies across the U.S. over the weekend. -
Some Metro Detroit Democrats want the Michigan Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging new legislative districts. -
This week prosecutors seek a rare trial for the parents of a teen accused of shooting and killing four students at Oxford High School.But defense attorneys representing James and Jennifer Crumbley want the preliminary exam postponed. -
Students and staff return to Oxford High School this week, where gunfire took the lives of four teens. -
The Biden Administration begins sending additional federal health care workers this week, to half-a-dozen states hit hard by a surge of COVID-19 case, but many hospital systems are suffering severe staff shortages because of the highly contagious Omicron variant.
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The teen accused of killing four students at Oxford High School had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf on Wednesday. -
Students and staff are scheduled to return for in-person learning this week, but high school classes will not be held in the building where the horrific shooting occurred
