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, an episodic investigative podcast for the station. In 2026, the show won an Edward R. Murrow award.
She hosts the Arkansas Civic Minute thanks to the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Program.
Josie has sixteen 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 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. -
The allegation matches video of the arrest obtained by Little Rock Public Radio. -
The unanimous decision would regulate a possible Google data center near the Port of Little Rock. -
The county says the vote to pause data center construction for one year was recorded incorrectly. -
Residents were widely opposed to the construction of a new data center being pushed by an unknown corporation -
The hearing comes amid criminal charges against six employees of a state-run Human Development Center over the death of a resident. -
The legislation is the fourth time she's cut taxes in her tenure. -
Both chambers of the Arkansas Legislature passed new income tax cuts Tuesday morning. -
Lawmakers are poised to wrap up the 2026 fiscal legislative session Wednesday -
Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Little Rock, led the charge Monday calling for a federal investigation into the shooting.
