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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Michigan officials said they felt blindsided by news in February that the Norfolk Southern railroad had contracted to dispose of contaminated material from East Palestine at an injection well site in Romulus. -
One of the most unpredictable NFL Drafts kicks off Thursday and Lions fans have been debating who Detroit will select in the first round. -
A Dearborn businessman and civil rights advocate is launching a bid for the U.S. Senate. -
Police call it “Operation Ghost Rider.” -
The U-A-W opens national contract negotiations this summer. -
The National Football League is suspending five players for violating its policy on gambling. Four of those players are with the Detroit Lions. -
The U-S government says both Americans are being wrongfully detained. -
Officials in Highland Park want the state of Michigan to review the city's finances. -
President Obama created the Great Lakes Restoration Project in 2010 targeting between 300 and 400 million dollars a year towards cleaning the world’s largest supply of surface fresh water. -
U.S. Environmental Protection officials say today that trucks have resumed shipping contaminated materials away from where a train that carried toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.
