You can be a reporter or you can be an employee. But when the story is within your company, you can’t be both. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Minnesota Public Radio
Heistad was the classic public radio storyteller whose work, fortunately, has reached a new audience in the last several months as MPR News has reaired some of his productions as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the organization. Read more →
You wouldn’t know it by the journalism he’s been turning in, but Minnesota Public Radio reporter MPR reporter Mukhtar Ibrahim has had a challenge other reporters haven’t faced at the trial of three Somali men accused of trying to join the ISIS terror group in Syria. Ibrahim, who is Somali-American, has been singled out for different treatment than his white colleagues. Read more →
Hallinan was the afternoon newscaster during that time and at the conclusion of Friday’s All Things Considered, Tom Crann provided the appropriate goodbye Read more →
Dan Olson, who for 42 years has lent his voice and talent to Minnesota Public Radio, is spending his last full-day as a member of MPR today. He’s retiring, a feat which is incalculably difficult to do in the radio business. Not many people make it that far. Read more →