Growing up in the Detroit area, 760 WJR Senior News Analyst Marie Osborne‘s father would frequently ask her, “why do you ask ‘why’ so often?“
She knew from a young age she wanted to be the person with a front row seat to history.
In her more than four decades of radio journalism, Marie has reported from around the US, Europe, and China. Marie’s work has been heard on 760 WJR, ABC, CBS, and FOX News radio networks, as well as Voice of America, and the BBC.
She is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy, a Three-time winner of the national Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Headliner Award. She’s been honored multiple times by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters and the Associated Press. In 2023, she received the Neal Shine Award for Media Commitment to Philanthropy.
In 2018, Marie and her family established the John T. Osborne Plaid Pig Culinary Scholarship at Schoolcraft College in honor of their late son and brother who died of an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of 28.
Marie says the best part of her job is telling stories that help people to better understand one another. She’s been an adjunct journalism instructor at Wayne State University, where she often told her students to simply, “Be curious. Be honest.“
Marie and her husband are parents to three children and one grandchild who’s already been gifted one radio and one microphone.
