Rick Brewer
News DirectorRick Brewer has been news director at WCMU since February 2024.
Before leading the newsroom, Brewer was WCMU's general assignment reporter covering central and northern Michigan.
Before landing in Mount Pleasant, he was a producer for Iowa Public Radio’s two daily talk shows, Talk of Iowa and River to River, where he produced hundreds of interviews with guests ranging from hog farmers to presidential candidates for the 2020 Iowa caucuses.
His work has been featured on NPR, Harvest Public Media, Here & Now, WFIU, WFYI and Northeast Public Radio.
Brewer fell in love with radio and podcasts in graduate school at Indiana University in Bloomington after attending Denison University.
Send your story ideas to rick.brewer@cmich.edu
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Grayling residents are calling on the Department of Defense to pitch in and fund a project that would bring clean drinking water to contaminated parts of their community. -
Wildland firefighters across Michigan are breathing a sigh of relief after the U.S. House of Representatives passed another funding bill earlier this week that renews salary requirements. But the bill is set to expire in September. WCMU's Rick Brewer explains. -
Workers at the Decorative Panels International plant were unaware the company was on the verge of closing and that mass layoffs were on the horizon. -
The Decorative Panels International company has suddenly closed a long-standing factory in Alpena County, causing more than 150 workers to lose their jobs. -
A warm winter and lack of ice in Lakes Erie and Huron has prompted to Coast Guard to put ice breaking on hold until further notice. -
Commissioners from both counties signed off on two special assessments to rebuild the Sanford and Edenville dams that broke and caused widespread flooding in 2020. -
The shoreline along Buffalo Reef has been contaminated with stamp sands for decades. Now, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources says it has a preliminary plan to clean it up. -
For the third time in the last four years, the annual snowmobile gathering in Gaylord has been called off due to safety concerns and poor trail conditions. -
Trooper Joel Popp was investigating an suspected impaired driver when an 81-year-old motorist struck him and two police cruisers.
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The 2023 Great Lakes shipping season ended today with more iron being moved through the region and limited ice cover on lakes.
