Carol Cain is the 13-time Emmy Award-winning Senior Producer and Host of “Michigan Matters,” the highly-rated weekly Public Affairs show that airs at 5:30 a.m. on Sundays and 9:30 am on Sundays on CW Detroit 50 (WKBD). The show focuses on politics, business, education, sports, and community issues. She has interviewed the Captains of business, politics, and more. She has interviewed Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden and conducted a national Digital Presidential Debate with Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney on CBS platforms in the 2012 race. Carol also hosts and produces CBS Detroit’s “Eye on the Future” TV specials that have focused on business, politics, education, and more.
Cain is also an award-winning columnist at the Detroit Free Press. She began her career as State Editor at United Press International and served as Business Editor for the Toledo Blade. She was a nationally syndicated columnist at The Detroit News before joining the Free Press, where she served as Editor of the National, International, and Business Desks before starting her column, which runs each week.
Cain has received numerous awards for her community work from NAWBO, Inforum, the City of Detroit Spirit Award, the Greater Detroit Chinese Association, the Michigan Muslim Community Council, the Niagara Foundation, the Detroit Chinese Business Association, and the Michigan Business and Professional Association.
Cain has degrees from Michigan State University and earned a Master of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.