Jack Lessenberry, a full-time member of the journalism faculty at Wayne State University, is WUOM-FM's senior political analyst and the host of "The Jack Lessenberry Show," on Michigan Radio, the only daily talk show designed to discuss important Michigan issues. He also is or been a writer for many national and regional publications, including Vanity Fair, Esquire, George, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. Currently, he is a contributing editor and columnist for the Metro Times, the Traverse-City Record Eagle and the Toledo Blade, and formerly for the Oakland Press and the Heritage Newspaper Group in Wayne and Washtenaw counties. He also serves as The Blade's writing coach and ombudsman. In Toledo, he is the host of the weekly television show "Deadline Now" which airs at 8:30 p.m. Fridays on WGTE-TV, Channel 30. Lessenberry has reported as foreign correspondent for and executive national editor of The Detroit News, during which time he reported from more than 40 countries. He has also worked for other newspapers in Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio, and was Editor-in-Chief of both Detroit Monthly and Corporate Detroit magazines. He also does occasional analysis for television stations in Detroit, and won a National Emmy award in 1995 for one of two Frontline documentaries he helped report and produce on Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Lessenberry also was featured in a March 1996 A&E Biography he helped produce on Kevorkian, and has assisted on two more for British television, and on a Court TV documentary about Detroit and the Belle Isle bridge slaying. He was named the Journalist of the Year in 2002 by the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Lessenberry, 56 has a master's degree in Journalism and East European studies from the University of Michigan.