What Do General Motors Union Workers on Strike Do When They’re Not Picketing?
Editor’s note: WDET reporters are members of the Professional and Administrative Union, Local 1979, UAW. United Auto Workers have been on strike against...
Laura Herberg is a Reporter for 101.9 WDET, telling stories about people inhabiting the Detroit region and the issues that affect us here. She won a Regional Murrow Award for best Hard News story (Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio) in 2020 and she was named the Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter for radio broadcasting in 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017. In 2012, she was awarded a SoundCloud Fellowship for her project, "Listen to Detroit." She also is the creator of Complete Me, a podcast with only three episodes about how she has trouble completing tasks.
Before becoming a radio reporter, Laura worked, among other things, as a buser, a telemarketer, a canvasser and a magician's assistant. She is originally from the Seattle area but lived in five other cities before settling on Detroit in 2010.
QLine Tickets Can Now Be Used to Ride the Bus, A Win For Transit Advocates
Louise Coleman is standing on Woodward Avenue waiting for the bus when I ask her if she knows she can...
This General Motors Worker Had Worked for 35 Years When His Plant Was Shut Down. Now, He’s Striking.
Laura Herberg/WDET Editor’s note: WDET reporters are members of the Professional and Administrative Union, Local 1979, UAW. The United Auto...
What Detroit’s Eastsiders Want to See From Fiat Chrysler To Improve Air Quality [UPDATED]
This article was updated 10/7/2019 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is building a new assembly plant on Detroit's eastside and, as a...
Why You Should Care About UAW Contracts, Which Expire This Week
Editor's note: WDET reporters are members of the Professional and Administrative Union, Local 1979, UAW. United Auto Workers contracts with Ford,...
New Podcast from Wayne State Features Stories of Iraqi Students Studying in Detroit
Ghaith Al Juboori, an Iraqi student, was a senior in high school studying for a big exam in the hall...
In Response to Water Crisis, Brightmoor Students Build Filtration System
A group of high school students is flattening a patch of dirt next to a modest-looking church in the northwest...
Want One of FCA’s 5,000 Promised Jobs? Get in Line
Detroit is getting its first new auto assembly plant in nearly 30 years as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles updates a current plant...
The Man Who Wants to Make Highland Park His Marijuana Headquarters
USDA.gov This Tuesday, Highland Park residents will vote on Prop 1, a proposed ordinance that lays out guidelines for marijuana industry...
Detroit’s East Side is Already Polluted. Will Fiat Chrysler Make It Worse?
When Amoni Pitts hears trucks working one street over from where she lives, she worries about being able to breathe....
Walking Beniteau Street in the Prelude to Fiat Chrysler’s Plant Expansion
Laura Herberg/WDET Walking down the sidewalk of Beniteau Street on Detroit’s eastside with a shotgun microphone covered in a fuzzy...
Listeners Ask, Why Does DTW Have Those Giant Fans?
CuriosiD is a regular series where listeners pose questions to the WDET staff, who then investigate the answers. See past...