Laura Herberg | Bridge Michigan
Reporter, Bridge MichiganLaura Herberg comes to Bridge from Outlier Media, where she worked as a Civic Life Reporter. Her journalism career took off at WDET, where she produced daily talk shows, created audio vignettes for galleries, anchored the news and hosted podcasts.
Known for her sound-rich feature stories, Laura has won several awards and was named the Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter for Radio Broadcasting four times.
In 2012, she produced a prototype for a Detroit mobile audio tour as part of a SoundCloud fellowship. Laura attended classes at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, has a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Wayne State University and a bachelor's in psychology from Lewis & Clark College.
She grew up in the Pacific Northwest and has lived in several places, including West Virginia and Scotland.
After moving to Detroit in 2010, Laura chose not to own a car and commuted primarily by bicycle for nearly a decade. These days she embraces the Motor City lifestyle and shares two vehicles with her husband.
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