Clay Masters
Host: Morning EditionClay Masters is Iowa Public Radio’s Morning Edition host and lead political reporter.
Clay joined the Iowa Public Radio newsroom as a statehouse correspondent in 2012 and started hosting Morning Edition in 2014. He began covering presidential politics in Iowa his first week on the job and created the IPR podcast Caucus Land in 2019, which he co-hosted and which won a regional large market Edward R. Murrow award. Clay is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has appeared on various NPR and American Public Media broadcasts and podcasts. He’s also an occasional music reporter for NPR’s arts desk.
He was one of the founding journalists of Harvest Public Media. Clay began his public media career in his native Nebraska where he covered agriculture and food production for the state’s public radio and TV network.
Clay has a bachelor’s of journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
You can contact Clay at cmasters@iowapublicradio.org.
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IPR Morning Edition host Clay Masters talks with IPR state government reporter Katarina Sostaric about some of the differences between the Iowa House and Senate when it comes to budget negotiations. -
IPR Morning Edition host Clay Masters checks in with IPR state government reporter Katarina Sostaric about some of the major issues at the Iowa Statehouse in the last week.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law at the very end of last week that will allow Iowans to buy or carry a concealed handgun without a permit.
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IPR Morning Edition host Clay Masters talks with IPR health reporter Natalie Krebs about how Iowans, aged 16 and older, should go about trying to schedule a vaccine in Iowa.
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There is still a lot we do not know about what lead to the drowning of two crew club members from Iowa State University earlier this week. IPR's Clay Masters talks with Ames Tribune reporter Isabella Rosario about some of the details that have come forward since accident happened on Sunday.
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IPR Morning Edition host Clay Masters discusses what to expect this week in the Iowa legislature with IPR state government reporter Katarina Sostaric.
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IPR Morning Edition host Clay Masters discusses what made it through the first self-imposed deadline Iowa lawmakers set for themselves to move bills out of committee, with IPR state government reporter Katarina Sostaric.
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Many free press advocates, like Amnesty International and the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, have called on the charges against Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri to be dropped. The program director for the Committee to Protect Journalists says not only should the charges be dropped, but an investigation should be launched looking into what lead to the arrest of a working journalist who identified herself as a member of the press.
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IPR's Morning Edition host Clay Masters talks with IPR state government reporter Katarina Sostaric about an election bill on Gov. Reynolds's desk that awaits her signature and about where some of her other priorities stand.
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U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne, D-West Des Moines, said Wednesday that she’s heard troubling stories from many of her constituents in Iowa’s 3rd Congressional District about trying to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
