Is it Time Detroit Stopped Being the ‘Motor City’?
Hear WDET's report by clicking on the audio player above. Ralph Nader, pedestrians on Woodward Avenue, Detroit City Councilmember Scott...
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.
Looking Back at 1982 Poletown Documentary
WDET/Laura Herberg Thousands of journalists from around the world will be in Detroit next week for the North American International...
Looking to Buy a Home in Metro Detroit? Find Out How to Get a $15K Forgivable Loan
Additional money is coming to help people purchase homes in areas of Michigan hit hard by the mortgage crisis. The...
WDET EXCLUSIVE: The Origin of the MJR Clap
Some moviegoers will clap after a really good film. At MJR, a Southeast Michigan theater chain with ten locations, patrons clap...
Two Oases in Highland Park’s Restaurant Desert
As highlighted in a WDET story yesterday, Highland Park, Mich. doesn’t have a bar (though a couple are now in...
Highland Park Doesn’t Have a Bar
If you want to get a beer in Highland Park you can go to a party store, you can go...
StoryCorps Detroit Special 2018
This is a special hour of StoryCorps pieces recorded right here in Detroit and produced by WDET. Click on the...
Do You Know How the MJR Clap Started?
Editor's Note: After this post was made, with help from readers like you, WDET reported on how the MJR clap...
Voters Talk Prop. 3: “My ancestors were killed for the right to vote.”
WDET/Laura Herberg “My people, my ancestors, they were killed for the right to vote. They had dogs sicked on them,...
Is Oakland County Ready for Election Day?
According to a report put out by Oakland County’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Election Infrastructure, 75 of 516 precincts in the...
Get to Know the Candidates for Michigan State Senate District 2
Michigan’s 2nd Senate District covers the five Grosse Pointes, Harper Woods, Hamtramck, Highland Park and parts of Detroit. The last...
Catholic College in Detroit is Offering Classes to an All-Muslim Group
WDET/Laura Herberg Steve Mustapha Elturk is getting his Master of Arts in Social Justice at Marygrove College, a small Catholic...