Kyle Norris
former producerKyle Norris is from Michigan and spent ten years as a host and reporter with Michigan Radio, the state’s largest NPR-affiliate. He lives in Seattle and works as a substitute host and producer at KNKX.
His stories are intimate and character-driven. He explores issues surrounding identity, health, religion, poverty, and arts & culture narratives.
Norris is known for his sound-rich style of storytelling and conversational, expressive tone.
His stories have appeared on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, Here and Now, The Splendid Table, The Environment Report, and World Vision Report.
He was selected as a 2016 New Voice Scholar from the Association for Independents in Radio and has won a Clarion Award in 2016 for his work on a radio documentary about life for military veterans in Michigan. His awards include 1st place for enterprise/investigative reporting from PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Inc.) and a "best of" award for individual reporting from the Michigan Associated Press.
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About a quarter of Michigan's 43,000 state prisoners are mentally ill, and new Michigan Corrections Director Dan Heyns says he wants to shift…
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Central Michigan University says there’s been some progress involving contract talks with the faculty union this weekend. The progress has been related to…
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Forbes has just released a list of the ten best places to live cheaply, and mid-western cities made several appearances on the list.Sandusky, Ohio took… -
As many as 17 post office branches in Detroit and other parts of southeast Michigan could be closed by the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service. The… -
A group of teenagers in Detroit has been pounding the pavement this summer and surveying local organizations. Their goal was to find out which… -
This summer Michigan teenagers faced an employment rate of 30% which meant that 84,000 teenagers who wanted to work were un-able to find jobs.Teen… -
A Michigan State University scientist is leading a team of researchers to study how lakes, streams and wetlands are connected to their… -
The Michigan Republican Party State Central Committee has decided the state GOP will use a closed presidential primary next year.That means voters will…
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Michigan State University will be a little more crowded this fall. The incoming freshman class at the East Lansing university will be the largest and most… -
One of the brightest meteor showers of the year happens overnight. It’s called the the Perseid meteor shower and although it happens for several days, it…
