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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The federal government today is proposing that railroads traveling through Michigan, and across the country, automatically inform first responders of all cargo on board a train, whenever there’s a derailment. -
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says establishing domestic supply chains is vital for both the nation’s economy and its security. -
A former Detroit police chief wants the Michigan legislature to require law enforcement officers to intervene whenever they see a colleague using excessive force. -
Michigan Republican officials are changing how the party chooses delegates for its national convention to nominate a candidate for president. -
General Motors – which plans an all-electric vehicle lineup in about a dozen years – is continuing a series of investments in gasoline-powered trucks. -
Officials with General Motors say the automaker will invest more than a billion (b) dollars to help produce heavy-duty trucks in Flint. -
The Detroit Grand Prix makes a historic return to the downtown streets of the Motor City. -
Some drivers heading to downtown Detroit for this weekend’s Grand Prix, hope a change of venue brings a change of fortune from their last race, at the famed Indianapolis 500. -
Detroit officials say the city’s un-employment rate has fallen to the lowest level in three decades. -
Drivers starting their engines to head towards the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, will need a special pass to avoid drivers starting their engines for the new downtown Detroit Grand Prix.
