Michael Leland
News DirectorMichael joined IPR in 2015 and has overseen initiatives such as the establishment of IPR’s western Iowa beat, and fulltime health reporting position. He has also led newsrooms at Wisconsin Public Radio and Michigan Radio. Before getting into management, Michael’s reporting career took him to a variety of places, from Chicago City Hall, to a former coal mine 600 feet under southern Illinois, to an Inuit community in far northern Canada. After nearly 35 years in broadcast journalism, Michael says he’s always learning new things and that this is a very exciting and rewarding time to be in journalism!
Michael is a New Englander who came to the Midwest for graduate school in the mid '80s and decided to call this part of the country home. He has a master’s in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kansas State University. His undergraduate degree is in Communications and Business Administration from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts.
Contact Michael at mleland@iowapublicradio.org.
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Large gatherings are allowed to resume starting this week. There's a primary on Tuesday, and the Iowa Legislature is returning to session Wednesday. As…
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Iowa schools are closed for the rest of the school year, and many businesses remain closed through April 30 by order of the governor as the state works to…
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Iowa businesses, school districts and citizens continue to respond to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic. Updates and news regarding the spread of the virus…
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The head of the Iowa Democratic Party says the party is manually verifying the results of Monday night’s first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. In a brief…
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Several hundred people gathered at Drake University Monday morning for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day prayer breakfast. The annual event honors…
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The University of Iowa football team had had 17 straight non-winning seasons when Hayden Fry was hired as coach in 1978. Fry, who turned the UI into a…
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The entire staff of RAGBRAI, the annual bike ride across Iowa, has resigned over the Des Moines Register’s handling of the Carson King story.King helped…
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President Trump will address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, as his administration confronts foreign policy challenges in the Middle East and a…
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President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are holding a press conference from the G-7 summit of world economic leaders in France. He had…
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The final presidential candidate to speak at the Iowa State Fair says it won’t be easy to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020. Massachusetts Democratic…