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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The summertime blues have arrived for thousands of Michigan teenagers, who face a tough job market this year. That’s despite some improvement from last… -
Police say longtime Flint civil rights activist and attorney C. Frederick Robinson has been fatally shot. The Flint Journal reports Robinson was killed…
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People who have unpaid parking tickets in Detroit will be able to take advantage of a special program and pay only half the amount of money they owe. The… -
People opposed to Michigan's financial managers law are intensifying their efforts to get a repeal on the November ballot. The law gives financial…
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Michigan boasts plenty of summer festivals celebrating fruit, vegetables, music, and food. But there’s a relatively new festival that pays homage to the… -
Sometimes getting caught can be a good thing.A kayaker on the Manistee River in the northwestern Lower Peninsula recently was stopped by officers who were… -
A judge in Grand Rapids says the state of Michigan must comply with a federal request to turn over information about the medical marijuana records of six… -
The Associated Press reports roughly a dozen state-level Michigan Republicans already face recall threats this year, less than six months into their… -
Here's a staff favorite and a little of a blast from the past. Former Michigan Radio reporter Dustin Dwyer wonders if the Mackinac Policy Conference…
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Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was declared in 1868 to honor the memory of deceased military service members. Michigan-based author Wade…
