Meet Anna Haecherl
Anna Haecherl is a digital editor for MPR News. She oversees the digital production team that curates the MPR News website and MPR News’ social media accounts.
Before joining MPR News in 2023, Anna served as the news director of the St. Cloud Times, starting as a business reporter there and moving into a content coach role before overseeing the newsroom. Anna also spent time as a reporter at the Marshall Independent in southwest Minnesota, covering county governments, agriculture and writing human interest stories.
Anna studied English, writing and music at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall. She was born and raised in southwest Minnesota, in the unincorporated, census-designated place called “The Lakes” in Murray County. She lives in St. Paul with her wife and their basset hound, Clyde. She enjoys biking and hiking when the weather allows for it and playing games and music when it doesn't.
Recent Contributions
- Reported snowfall totals from Minnesota’s March winter storm
- New year, new laws: These laws are now in effect in Minnesota
- Lawsuit challenges Minnesota abortion access in federal court
- 40-year underdog Staples-Motley High among 9 undefeated teams in Prep Bowl
- Grapegate: Remembering the New York Times’ grape salad debacle 10 years later
- Minnesotans Darwitz, Wendell-Pohl set for Hockey Hall of Fame induction Monday
- Police fatally shoot suspect in ‘cold-blooded’ killing of artist in St. Paul’s Lowertown
- Washington County law enforcement arrest person of interest after Hugo homicide
- Fact check: Trump calls out Minnesota abortion law, 2020 unrest in presidential debate
- 71st Princess Kay of the Milky Way crowned ahead of Minnesota State Fair