John Wisely has been a reporter in Michigan for more than 30 years covering government, politics, crime, courts, education and investigations. He’s a three-time recipient of the Wade H. McCree Award for the Advancement of Justice and has received two regional Emmy awards. In 2018, he received a best investigative reporting award from the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors and was part of a Free Press team that won that group’s First Amendment Award for outstanding accomplishment in pursuing the Freedom of Information. The Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists named Wisely journalist of the year in 2003 for stories that prompted the state legislature to pass a law reopening search warrants to public scrutiny after being sealed following 9/11. Wisely is a Detroit native who graduated from Wayne State University.