Covering the Biden-Putin Summit in Geneva, Switzerland for NPR with host Mary Louise Kelly in June 2021.

Sam Gringlas

I'm a politics reporter at WABE, Atlanta's NPR affiliate, covering elections, voting, public policy, the state legislature, demographics and law. I also co-host the weekly podcast Plugged In: A WABE Politics Podcast.

I regularly report for NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. I've also contributed to the podcasts UpFirst, the NPR Politics Podcast and Consider This. I have appeared on PBS Newshour, MSNBC, BBC, Slate's What Next and Vox's Today Explained and my reporting has been highlighted by the New York Times, Politico and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Before WABE, I served as producer based in Washington, D.C. for NPR's flagship program All Things Considered where I covered four years of the Trump Administration, elections, immigration, impeachments, the pandemic and breaking news from across the country and around the world. I also helped cover the 2020 election as a hybrid reporter-producer with NPR's politics desk.

I've also worked with NBC News in Washington and WDET, Detroit's public radio station.

I have experience reporting in the nation's capital as well as two of the most important battleground states, Georgia and Michigan. I have covered all three branches of government to some extent and have worked across multiple mediums, including print, audio and digital.

My reporting has been recognized by the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the National Press Club and the Michigan Society of Professional Journalists.

I'm a native Michigander and earned a B.A. in public policy from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where I was elected Managing News Editor of The Michigan Daily.

When I'm not reporting, you can find me by Lake Michigan, hiking in the north Georgia mountains or hanging out with my rescue hound.

Over more than five years at All Things Considered, I served as field producer for Ari Shapiro, Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly and Audie Cornish. I've also done rotations as live broadcast director, update producer and line producer in charge of the daily show.

Since 2021, I've been based in Atlanta for WABE. The Peach State is regularly in the center of the most important stories facing the country. I've covered the Georgia election interference case in Fulton County focused on former President Trump, fast-changing Sunbelt demographics, fallout from the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, critical races for Governor and Senate, the rise of the EV industry, the gun policy, mental health reform and voting rights. I zoom back and forth between local, community journalism and reporting for a national audience.

Reporting Projects

China

NPR dispatched a team to China in the fall of 2019 to cover the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. We reported from inside a dog poop bag factory in Dongguan to better understand the trade war, discretely interviewed activists for democracy and women's rights in Beijing and Hong Kong and convened a roundtable of young professionals educated in the U.S. at a trendy cat cafe to talk about the country's future.

U.S.-Mexico Border

NPR set out to chronicle fallout from the Trump Administration's "family separation policy." We filed from a busy bus station in McAllen, Texas where newly reunited mothers and children were catching buses to destinations around the country. We reported from a migrant shelter in Matamoros, Mexico, a butterfly sanctuary caught up in the fight over the border wall and a newly re-opened ICE private detention facility.

Pacific Northwest

A year-long investigation into immigration enforcement in the interior of the country under the Trump Administration led to a small city in the Pacific Northwest. We chronicled the experience of one family as they navigated months of court hearings, detention and many twists and turns.

Michigan

As a native Michigander, I'm passionate about covering the Great Lakes State. In addition to award-winning reports on the early days of the Flint Water Crisis, I have returned to Michigan to cover the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential primary. In my opinion, Michigan is up there with Georgia as one of the most fascinating and important states in the nation.

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