Jana Rose Schleis

Jana Rose Schleis is a News Producer at KBIA and an instructor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Schleis is the reporter and producer behind KBIA's national-award-winning series, The Next Harvest, which explores solutions to agriculture's environmental and economic challenges through on-the-ground reporting and contextual storytelling.

She earned a master's degree at the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she studied investigative journalism and government reporting. Schleis worked for Agri-Pulse in Washington D.C. and the Cap Times in Madison, WI where she honed expertise reporting on energy, environment, agriculture and policy.

During graduate school Jana Rose Schleis reported on city, county, and state government for the Columbia Missourian and was the Morning Anchor at KBIA. Schleis was also a member of the Watchdog Writers Group and a Pulitzer Center grantee.

Previously, Schleis worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for five years as a Production Assistant, Producer of “The Morning Show,” and finally Network Producer for The Ideas Network. She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, where her very first radio experience came from the community station WWSP 90FM — your only alternative.

Jana Rose Schleis is from a small Wisconsin town located on the Lake Michigan shore. She's a proud dairy farm kid who loves cheese, of course, and also live music, books and radio.

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