Morgan Springer
Host / Producer, NEXTMorgan Springer is the host/producer for the weekly show NEXT and the New England News Collaborative, a ten-station consortium of public radio newsrooms. She joined WNPR in 2019. Before working at Connecticut Public Radio, Morgan was the news director at Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan, where she launched and co-hosted a weekly show Points North.
As a reporter at IPR, her series "Irredeemable," about Michigan juvenile lifers and the state's resentencing process, won a 2017 national PRNDI 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 received national awards. You can hear her stories on NPR, Interlochen Public Radio, Michigan Radio, 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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Since the pandemic hit, carbon emissions have dropped globally. A study in “Nature Climate Change” found a 17 percent decrease in emissions by early… -
Racial segregation is a modern-day problem that is perpetuated in New England through local zoning laws.That’s the argument from Sara Bronin, a land-use… -
Shardé M. Davis, a communications professor at the University of Connecticut, is the co-founder of the Twitter hashtag #BlackintheIvory. Along with Joy… -
For nearly 200 years, the term “female husband” was used to describe an individual assigned female at birth who chose to live fully as a man.Historian Jen…
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After the death of George Floyd, demonstrators rallied outside police departments, on highways and through downtowns across New England calling for police…
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Black Americans are disproportionately contracting and dying from COVID-19. It’s no different in Connecticut, where about 12% of the state’s population is… -
A new report says the majority of U.S. parents want schools that are racially and economically integrated. But in districts where parents have school… -
Some schools in western Massachusetts are changing up their schedules to help protect students from a mosquito-borne virus.
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A new study finds an uptick in the number of women who are fishing in the Upper Great Lakes region. Younger women especially seem drawn to a sport that is traditionally male-dominated. -
There's a housing association on Lake Michigan where only practicing Christians can own property. They say they are a religious organization and are exempt from anti-discrimination laws.
