Grace Walker
Newsroom InternContact Grace Walker:
📧 walke1ge@cmich.edu 📞 989-774-3105
Grace Walker is a newsroom intern for WCMU and The Alpena News.
She is also the news editor at the student-run newspaper Central Michigan Life and president of the Society of Professional Journalist chapter at Central Michigan University.
Walker is a senior working on a double major in journalism and political science. She has been working at CM-Life since 2024. Before CMU, she worked as one of the last reporters for Michigan Times, the student-run newspaper at the University of Michigan - Flint.
After graduation, Walker wants to pursue a career in political reporting. Her two favorite destinations in Michigan are Marquette, for her love of Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula and her hometown Flint, Michigan.
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WCMU Public Media sent a survey to all six of the First Congressional District candidates seeking their party's nomination on Aug. 4. We asked for their views on several issues, including affordability, federal disaster relief, Line 5, PFAS contamination, foreign policy and more. -
U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman is up for re-election in the GOP's First Congressional District primary on Aug. 4, 2026. He is one of three Republican candidates. -
Justin Michal is one of three Republican candidates running in the First Congressional District's GOP primary on Aug. 4, 2026. -
Matthew DenOtter is one of three Republican candidates running in the First Congressional District's GOP primary on Aug. 4, 2026. -
Callie Barr is one of three Democratic candidates running for the First Congressional District seat in the primaries on Aug. 4, 2026. -
Wayne Stiles is one of three Democratic candidates running in the First Congressional District primaries on Aug 4, 2026. -
Kyle Blomquist is one of three Democratic candidates running for the First Congressional District seat in the primaries on Aug. 4, 2026. -
Troopers from the Michigan State Police are training 14 students on basic police training this week between July 19 through July 24. -
“It’s a pretty wild feeling,” Scott Wade, this year’s Big Brownie catcher said. “Just out there trying to catch walleye and we end up with a brown trout and it’s the tagged one. It’s an amazing feeling.” -
After reaching 7,500 customers in Presque Isle, Cheboygan and Alpena counties, the Presque Isle Electric and Gas Cooperative is starting construction in Montmorency County.
