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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Polling shows the progressive candidate is in a tight primary race for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat.
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After a series of snow storms and historic floods earlier this year, northern Michigan has seen the wettest winter and spring on record.
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The Alpena High School Underwater Research Robotics team will be heading to Canada for the MATE worlds championship at the end of June.
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The latest forest health highlights report published by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources states the forests are in overall good health.
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In partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Ferris State University is now developing the state's first dental therapy program to help make dental care more accessible.
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Munson Healthcare announced it will begin the next two phases of drone research this May. A recent report showed the first tests had a 91% success rate after nearly 70 flights.
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The state's most recent Mobility Report shows that Michigan is one of the top states for apprenticeships completed in the mobility sector.
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The nonprofit organization ReLeaf Michigan organized the 2025 Big Tree Hunt.
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The bill removes the gray wolf from the endangered species list, and allows states to make their own decisions on managing wolf populations.
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Bay Mills Community College received the donation from the Mackenzie Scott Foundation. The foundation said the college can use the money however they see fit.