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 the 2021 legislative session and what to expect. -
Introducing Here First, a new podcast from Iowa Public Radio. It's a quick daily show for your workweek, and catches you up on state news as you begin your day.
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The state's largest water utility has changed how it staffs its water treatment facility since the beginning of the pandemic. The utility's CEO also says they are working to find a collaborative path forward between legislation and litigation to address water quality issues in central Iowa in 2021.
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This week IPR is featuring a series of reports about systemic racism in Iowa. Iowa Public Radio's Morning Edition host Clay Masters kicks off the series by talking about the history of systemic racism in the state with Iowa-Nebraska NAACP President Betty Andrews.
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The Iowa Democratic Party has released the audit it commissioned following the 2020 Iowa caucus fiasco and it shows there were multiple problems, but the DNC played a major role.
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IPR's Clay Masters talks with Talk of Iowa host Charity Nebbe about how the pandemic will impact Iowans' mental health as they cancel Thanksgiving travel plans, and what she's learned from recent Talk of Iowa episodes on the subject.
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Cedar Rapids City Council Member Ashley Vanorny talks with IPR's Clay Masters about her experience with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine testing trial through the University of Iowa.
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Iowans will make a final decision in the presidential race on Election Day on Tuesday. Iowa Public Radio’s Clay Masters takes a look back at how the campaigns for President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have played out in Iowa in the midst of a pandemic.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made his first appearance in Iowa since his fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses in February.
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Iowa Public Radio’s Clay Masters has this profile of the race with just 6 days until voters must make a final decision.
