Social Science Research Council

Michael Leland has been the news director at Michigan Radio, the public radio service based at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, since December, 2002. He leads a staff of four full-time reporters and a couple of interns. Michigan Radio covers a large part of the state, from Detroit west to Lake Michigan, so the news staff concentrates on issues and stories interesting to a regional and diverse audience.

Prior to joining Michigan Radio, Michael spent 10 years as a news anchor and reporter for the Voice of America, the U.S. government-funded international radio service. He spent most of that time as VOA's Midwest correspondent, based in Chicago. Michael has also worked as a part-time news anchor at National Public Radio in Washington D.C., as well as a reporter and anchor at stations in Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.

Michael graduated from Curry College in Milton, MA, with a bachelor's degree in communications and business administration. He has a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kansas State University.