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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Newly passed legislation requires car companies to source a major portion of key components and assemble electric batteries in the U.S. or a country with a free trade agreement within a few years. -
Detroit is remembering native son and famed Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier, who has died at the age of 81. -
Michigan's Republican nominee for governor laid out her case for the office over the weekend, before a crowd in Texas — at a gathering of the GOP faithful. -
Tens of thousands of utility customers in Michigan remain without power, after strong storms swept through the state yesterday. -
In a primary pitting two current members of the U.S. House against each other, Haley Stevens defeated fellow Democrat Andy Levin in Michigan's newly-redrawn 11th Congressional district. -
It’s the stretch run for candidates courting voters in Tuesday’s primary elections. -
Michigan’s re-designed political boundaries left many voters without an incumbent U-S representative. Several members of Congress switched to new districts adjacent to their old ones.That’s the case in the new 12th Congressional District. It includes portions of west Detroit, western Wayne County, Oakland County, Dearborn and Southfield.Democratic candidates in the new 12th are making incumbent Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib their primary target.
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The Biden Administration has made a “substantial proposal” to secure the release of Paul Whelan and WNBA star Brittney Griner. -
Biden Administration officials say a bi-partisan measure passed by the U.S. Senate could ease a shortage of semiconductor chips for Detroit automakers and take a bite out of inflation. -
Biden Administration officials are praising Senate passage of legislation designed to increase U.S. production of semiconductor chips.
