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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As part of our Mornings in Michigan series, see how a former Sears parking lot is transformed into a community-wide get together that lasts into the wee hours of the morning. -
Imagine a series of regional electric rail systems that allow convenient, environmentally friendly train travel between key points in Michigan. That might sound like a vision of the future, but this is a story about Michigan’s past. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin has attempted to justify his country’s attack on Ukraine by citing what he has called the two countries’ “historical unity.” For a deeper look at the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations, Michigan Radio turned to Ronald Suny, a professor of history and political science at the University of Michigan. -
WGPR was the first Black owned and operated television station in the country. A museum honoring its history sits in the former broadcast studios. -
A threat directed at Oxford Middle School prompted the district to close all school buildings on Tuesday. And the parents of the teen charged with killing four students at Oxford High School in a mass shooting on November 30 are scheduled to return to court Tuesday on charges of involuntary manslaughter. -
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Tuesday she’s disappointed Oxford Community Schools has declined her offer to conduct an independent investigation into the November 30 school shooting. -
The shooting at Oxford High School on November 30 spawned copycat threats and caused dozens of schools to close Thursday and Friday out of an abundance of caution. -
Bell’s Brewery, the maker of Two Hearted Ale and Oberon, has been sold to an international company based in Australia and Japan. The brewery’s founder Larry Bell is retiring. -
Kelly Rossman-McKinney was a longtime fixture in Lansing politics. -
The home-care industry for crash survivors is collapsing because of Michigan's auto insurance law. We asked DIFS Director Anita Fox what's being done about it.
