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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President Donald Trump spoke for about 90 minutes to cheering supporters at the Des Moines Airport Wednesday evening. He talked about fiscal issues, polling, but not about the pandemic, as the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to climb in the state. -
President Trump returns to Iowa on Wednesday — a state he won comfortably in 2016 but is suddenly competitive amid the coronavirus pandemic and a struggling farm sector.
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Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is fighting to hang onto her senate seat in the remaining three weeks until Election Day. Democrat Theresa Greenfield is leading in most public opinion polls and thousands of Iowans have already cast their ballots early for this race, which is one of the most expensive in the country.
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Political campaigns in tight races are weighing the risks of politics and public health as they enter the final month of campaigning during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and her Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield squared off for the first time in a debate Monday night at Iowa PBS's studios in Johnston.
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IPR's Clay Masters talks with Des Moines Register Chief Politics Reporter Brianne Pfannenstiel ahead of Monday's first debate between Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and her Democratic challenger Theresa Greenfield.
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The Biden campaign responds to recent decisions made by the Trump administration regarding ethanol less than two months before the election.
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The race for Joni Ernst's seat could help determine control of the Senate. At a recent campaign event, the GOP lawmaker echoed a debunked conspiracy theory about the pandemic's death toll.
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Earlier this month, President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force recommended to state leaders that they implement a mask mandate. Republican Sen. Joni Ernst does not think Iowa should mandate one. Ernst's Democratic challenger, Theresa Greenfield, thinks a mask mandate would be a good idea.
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IPR News is sitting down with both major party candidates in the 2020 U.S. Senate race to discuss federal response to the derecho and pandemic.
