Jared Wadley covers various units affiliated with the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, as well as the School of Social Work, and Law School. He joined Michigan News in 2002 after spending 13 years as a small business, retail, tourism, and economic development reporter at The Press-Enterprise (Calif.) and Flint Journal (Mich.). He has a bachelor’s in journalism from Bowling Green State University, where he was inducted into the Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism Hall of Fame in 2019.

His U-M connection goes beyond work. As a volunteer, he proudly takes his collie Legend for pet therapy visits to U-M Mott Children’s Hospital and throughout campus for de-stressing events.

Topic Areas

• Political Science
• Law
• Social Work
• Poverty Solutions
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Information
• Communication/Media
• Film/Television/Media
• Organizational Studies
• History
• English
• Linguistics
• Philosophy
• Women’s Studies
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender