Josie Lenora
Politics/Government ReporterJosie Lenora is the Politics/Government Reporter for Little Rock Public Radio. She covers anything involving city government, the legislature, or the governor's office. She lead up the "Arkansas Decides 2024" election coverage, and is working on developing an anthology news podcast for the station. She is the occasional fill-in host for Morning Edition or All Things Considered.
She has ten first-place awards from the Arkansas Society of Professional Journalists. Her report on the Arkansas Department of Education's AP African American Studies ban won first place at the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest for 2024, in the radio category.
She is also the recipient of The National Press Foundations 2024 Elections Journalism Fellowship. She is a board member for the Arkansas Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Her reporting has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. This includes the Lawsuit over "Critical Race Theory" in Schools, Arkansas drag bans and the State Monument to the Unborn. She has done freelance audio work for Gimlet's podcast "Crime Show" and Dateline NBC's "Murder in Apartment 12." She is an occasional guest on the Arkansas-PBS weekly news show "Arkansas Week." She also moderated a congressional debate for Arkansas-PBS.
Josie has a B.A. degree in English/creative writing from Hendrix College in Conway.
Outside work, Josie is a crafting fanatic. Name a craft and she's probably tried it: renovating the insides of old dollhouses, scrapbooking, making cards, polymer clay, needle felting, DIY home decorating and building layered paper shadow boxes. Josie loves spin class, workplace sitcoms, caffeinated lattes and every shade of pink. She listens to as many podcasts as she can fit in a day.
She loves hearing from listeners. Email: josie@littlerockpublicradio.org
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A coalition of local advocacy groups asked for their representatives to show up to answer questions, to no avail. -
The bill put forward by Rep. Mary Bentley was taken down for amendments after a representative for the Arkansas Attorney General's Office said it was “facially unconstitutional.” -
Though scientific trials into the drug do not show the results legislators promised, they described it Thursday as a mysterious miracle drug. -
The report recommends Baker be barred from certain employee offices for violating anti-harassment rules. -
Chemical abortions, the death penalty and robots with guns were all topics of discussion in a Tuesday legislative committee meeting.
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Arkansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would put more oversight over a group investigating state-run facilities for disabled people. -
The larger court declined Baker's request to throw out a lawsuit, after she left out a document said to disprove allegations against her. -
The legislation is named “Lux's Law” after the body of a stillborn infant in Arkansas was sold online. -
The bill comes after several other legislative attempts to regulate content in state libraries and concerns over oversight at Arkansas PBS. -
The bill passed an Arkansas Senate committee with unanimous support Wednesday.
