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Lorna Benson

Meet Lorna Benson

Lorna Benson is the deputy managing editor for the regional and politics teams at MPR News. She is a longtime health journalist. Her reporting has centered on urgent public health issues from pandemic flu to measles outbreaks to health disparities. She got her start at MPR’s bureau station in St. Peter covering general assignment stories in southcentral Minnesota.