Morgan Springer
Contributing editorMorgan Springer is a contributing editor and producer at Interlochen Public Radio. She previously worked for the New England News Collaborative as the host/producer of NEXT, the weekly show which aired on six public radio station in the region.
Before her stint in the Northeast, Morgan worked full-time at IPR – first as an intern, then as a reporter and finally as the news director. Her series "Irredeemable," about Michigan juvenile lifers and the state's re-sentencing process, received a 2017 first place national PMJA award and a regional Edward R. Murrow award. Her stories "Irredeemable, episode 3: Tortured choice,""Grandmother's letter from the Holocaust" and "Behind bars, transformation through poetry"have also recieved national awards. Her work has been featured on NPR, public radio stations in the Midwest and New England, WHYY's "The Pulse" and National Native News.
Morgan has an undergraduate degree in International Studies from Earlham College. After graduating, she did a stint as the constituent services coordinator for the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office before leaving to work at a garden center. In 2014, she went to the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies to study radio and documentary film, bringing her briefly back to her home state of Maine.
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This week on Points North, how climate change is causing diseases to thrive in Michigan’s fruit crops. Plus, winemakers Up North pursue more…
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This week on Points North, Traverse City’s new baseball team dominates on the field, but getting fans in the seats has been another matter. Plus, a review…
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This week on Points North, female pilots are underrepresented in the commercial aviation industry. That’s been true for a while, but a program in northern…
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This week on Points North, the water is so high in Michigan this summer that shorelines are disappearing, docks are underwater and rivers are overflowing.…
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Michigan has complicated laws when it comes to private beaches and public access, and the rules for inland lakes are different from the Great Lakes.The…
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This week on Points North, we look at animals and the threats they face. Great Lakes piping plovers were on the verge of extinction in the 1980s, but…
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This week on Points North, former inmates of the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility claim their basic hygiene needs are sometimes ignored. IPR…
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When Kelsey Buttars was incarcerated at the Grand Traverse County Correctional Facility in 2017, corrections officers would typically bring feminine…
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This week on Points North, elderly drivers in Grand Traverse County get in car accidents at a higher rate than most other Michigan counties. We explore…
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Northern Michigan’s largest school district is one step closer to hiring a new superintendent. On Monday, the board for Traverse City Area Public Schools…