Lauren Talley
Morning Edition ProducerLauren Talley is Michigan Radio’s Morning Edition producer. She produces and edits studio interviews and feature stories, and helps manage the “Mornings in Michigan” series. Lauren also serves as the lead substitute host for Morning Edition.
Lauren returned to Michigan Radio in March 2017 nearly a decade after her first internship as a newsroom intern. From 2011 to 2017, Lauren worked at a PBS member station in Washington, D.C. She was a producer for the public television program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, a weekly show about world religion.
Lauren graduated from Michigan State University with degrees in Journalism and Spanish.
An Ann Arbor native, Lauren is happy to be back in the city where she was raised. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time in nature, sewing, cooking, and playing with her cat Dolly and her hound/lab mix, Rufus.
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Republican candidate for governor and recently retired Evangelical minister Ralph Rebandt talked to Michigan Radio's Morning Edition host Doug Tribou as part of our Election 2022 coverage. -
The Gull Rock Lighthouse sits on a small, remote island just off the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. Between 1872 and 1903, a series of three women lived and worked as assistant lighthouse keepers there. Michigan Radio talked to the great-great grandson of one of those women. -
Postcards with images depicting life in Michigan in the early 20th century are part of a collection at the University of Michigan's William L. Clements Library. Researchers are inviting volunteers to help catalog the more than 60,000 postcards in its collection. -
Detroit Free Press state government reporter Paul Egan joined Michigan Radio's Doug Tribou to talk about the latest shake up in the Republican race for governor. -
Michigan Bureau of Elections staff have recommended that half of the Republican candidates for governor be kept off the fall primary ballot, citing widespread problems with invalid, and sometimes fraudulent signatures. Now, the bipartisan Michigan Board of State Canvassers will determine which candidates are certified for the ballot. -
During World War II, at many of of the Nazis’ death camps in Germany and Poland, musicians were forced to perform in prisoner orchestras. They arranged songs to suit the instruments they had available. Now, musicians from the University of Michigan are performing 10 of those songs in the way they would have been performed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. -
Governor Gretchen Whitmer is waiting to find out whether the Michigan Supreme Court will hear her challenge to Michigan's dormant abortion law that would take effect if Roe v. Wade is overturned. -
Since the war in Ukraine began, more than 850,000 Ukrainians have fled into Romania. Mihaela Mitrofan works for Samaritas, a refugee aid organization in Michigan, but she is now in Romania to help with resettlement efforts there and to deliver supplies into Ukraine. -
Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek and its satellite campuses are closed because of a cyber attack. -
A staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump was ousted from the House Republican caucus Tuesday.
