Laura Weber Davis
Executive Producer, StatesideLaura is Executive Producer of Stateside. She came to Michigan Public from WDET in Detroit, where she was senior producer on the current events program, Detroit Today.
She began her career in public radio as an intern before taking a job as a Capitol-beat reporter for the Michigan Public Radio Network.
Laura was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and has had a lifelong love affair with Detroit and Michigan more broadly. She is a graduate of Michigan State University (Go Green!) and she received a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California.
Laura is an audiophile with a public radio habit, a dusty-record music head with a crate-digger’s heart, a toddler wrangler, a beach goer, a Jane Austen lover, a horseback rider, a dog walker, and an active listener who loves to hear and tell a good story.
Whatever she is doing at this very moment, she’d rather be listening to showtunes.
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Today, we talk to John Niyo, sports columnist for The Detroit News, about how crazy it is the Lions are 8-1 with no signs of stopping. -
Today, a conversation with Stephen Henderson, the host of Created Equal on WDET, about what’s next for the Democratic Party, and what lessons are to be learned after the election. -
We talk to VoteBeat's Hayley Harding about Michigan’s voter records, and what she expects as votes are counted and certified. -
Michigan’s Lebanese-American community is reeling as violence spreads in the Middle East. The scale of Israel’s exponential escalation of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is hard to fathom as yet more civilians have been caught in the middle. Journalist Razi Jafri has spent the past many months following the personal and political change happening in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck - communities in Michigan that have high populations of Arab Americans. -
A conversation about how Donald Trump’s first-term trade war set the stage for the present dispute over manufacturing tariffs. -
Detroit Free Press columnist Khalil AlHajal takes a deep look at DTE bills, analyzing our expenses as the utility asks for more rate hikes. -
MSU football's 1965 and '66 teams were the first in the country to fully integrate. They were also among the first to recruit Black players from the south. On the heels of those team's induction to MSU's Athletics Hall of Fame, the "Teams of the Century" documentary heard from players, coaches, and students from those pivotal years of MSU football to learn how their stories built an enduring legacy. -
Journalists did not have the option to turn off the news or stop paying attention to the death toll during the pandemic. You Li, a professor at Eastern Michigan University, captured oral stories of female journalists talking about their experiences simultaneously covering and confronting the pandemic. -
The work of Detroit-based metalsmith and multimedia artist Tiff Massey is currently on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts. -
Detroit Horse Power prepares to break ground on its equestrian center in the city.
