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. Josie leads bi-annual "Arkansas Decides" election coverage, and is an occasional fill-in host for Morning Edition or All Things Considered.
Josie is the host of Track One, the stations' documentary podcast. In 2026, the show won a national Edward R. Murrow award.
She hosts the Arkansas Civic Minute thanks to the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Program.
Josie has twenty 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. She was the recipient of The National Press Foundations Elections Journalism Fellowship. She has four first place award from the Arkansas Press Women. in 2025, she won the UA Little Rock Ben Fry Award for Staff Achievement, and was the recipient of The Arkansas Press Women’s First Investigative Journalism Mini-Grant. She served on the board for the Arkansas Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 2024-2025.
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 freelanced audio for Gimlet's podcast "Crime Show," "Embedded: Taking Cover" from NPR and Dateline NBC's "Murder in Apartment 12." Josie was a regular guest on the Arkansas-PBS weekly news show "Arkansas Week," and moderated a televised congressional debate at the former tv station.
Outside work, Josie is a miniature artist. She is working on a massive project to renovate dollhouses in the style of 15 different American decades. Click here to see the November 1933 house. Click here to see the August 1974 house. Click here to see the summer 1998 house.
She loves her job.
Email: josie@littlerockpublicradio.org
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A physical therapist is challenging an incumbent state representative in a district covering North Little Rock, Sherwood and north Pulaski County. -
Vice Mayor B.J. Wyrick is a decades-long veteran of the City Board, while Mayor Frank Scott Jr. is vying for a third term. -
The last day to register to vote in the November midterms in Arkansas is October 5. -
A letter released Thursday by the state ethics commission ordered Sen. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, to pay a $100 fine. -
Appeals continue in the case of an Arkansas death row inmate who wants his execution now. -
The comments come after Republican state Rep. Austin McCollum was arrested on allegations of domestic violence Saturday morning. -
A proposed ballot measure about Arkansas’ direct democracy process fell short of the signature requirements, Secretary of State Cole Jester announced Thursday, meaning the Arkansas Ballot Measure Rights Amendment will not go before voters in November. -
Protect AR Rights says they collected over 108,000 signatures to meet the Friday deadline.
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In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks called parts of canvassing laws unconstitutional. -
A panel unanimously stripped Christian Walker Morphis of his title Wednesday. The ban came after he was terminated from his job and amid a civil rights lawsuit against the department.
