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From the icehouse to the statehouse, MPR News has been on the scene, covering the stories that matter to Minnesotans, since we built our first newsroom in 1973 in Collegeville. With over 315,000 listeners each week, across 24 frequencies statewide, our radio waves reach a whopping 95 percent of Minnesota. (News deserts? Not on our watch.)
Beyond the terrestrial airwaves, our digital reach and awareness has grown to over 1.5 million people across our website (MPRNews.org), podcasts, mobile app, and our social media channels (YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok).
We know Minnesota is unique — a beautiful matrix of towns, cities, and communities, and that’s reflected at MPR News. Our newsrooms are home to talented Minnesotans — your neighbors and community members — with a passion for local journalism. From our St. Paul headquarters and reporting bureaus across the state (Collegeville, Bemidji, Duluth, Moorhead, Rochester, and Worthington), our team works to stay plugged in, keeping you up-to-date.
MPR News hosts and producers provide all audiences with award-winning local programming like, “MPR News with Angela Davis,” and “Big Books and Bold Ideas with Kerri Miller,” and connect national news with what’s happening locally through “Morning Edition with Cathy Wurzer,” “Minnesota Now” at noon and “All Things Considered with Tom Crann.” These familiar voices and shows inform and inspire Minnesotans across the state.
More than a source of daily news — MPR News is a resource that enriches. We hold space for authentic conversation and connection through community events like North Star Journey Live. We engage the public with digital tools and information through Talking Sense (helping people have hard political conversations better) and Reverb (a new way to news for the young/young at heart). And our weather team keeps us all ahead of the latest system as well as digs deep into climate science and its impacts.
Minnesotans don’t turn to MPR News for just the news; they turn to us to be heard. Because they are the news and the stories that define our state.
Beyond daily news and programming, our enterprise teams deliver impactful insights that change lives. Whether it’s reporting on health and meaning, environment or politics, coverage in our Native communities, or so much more, MPR News is focused on trusted, unbiased reporting that informs and inspires.
For example: the nationally acclaimed podcast “Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong” by our APM Reports team, has millions of downloads and triggered states across the country to pass new laws about how schools teach reading.
MPR News is one of the most awarded news organizations in the Upper Midwest, with over 1,000 honors to date, including national recognition from: George Foster Peabody Awards, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, the National Headliner Awards, Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards, among others.