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 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 Nebraska Public Media.
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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Former President Donald Trump made campaign stops in Dubuque and Maquoketa on Wednesday. -
Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis competed for votes at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Saturday.
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In an interview with IPR, Gov. Kim Reynolds spoke about her new "Fair-Side Chats" and the upcoming Iowa caucuses.
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IPR's Michael Leland talks with IPR lead political reporter Clay Masters about the Republican Party of Iowa's Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Friday evening.
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It's been a year since 988 launched. The new, easy-to-remember number that replaced the 10-digit suicide prevention lifeline comes at a time when demand for mental health services has soared.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday afternoon banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. It went into effect immediately. A judge plans to issue a ruling Monday that will determine whether or not the ban can be enforced.
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At the Family Leader summit in Des Moines, GOP presidential hopefuls will try to convince Iowa's influential evangelical voting bloc they have the conservative credentials to win the caucuses.
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Republican lawmakers in Iowa passed a new “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban during a special legislative session on Tuesday. The bill would effectively ban abortion after about six weeks into the pregnancy.
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A flurry of campaign events took place in Iowa last week as the field of candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination descended upon the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
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Republicans are showing up in Iowa early and often, trying to stand out against the big personality that former President Donald Trump brings to the GOP primary.
