Saying farewell to MPR News senior editor Mike Mulcahy

Micheal Mulchaly
Mike Mulcahy, senior editor at MPR News talks about his time at MPR and his storied career in an MPR News studio in St. Paul on Monday.
Kerem Yücel | MPR News

This is Mike Mulcahy’s final week with Minnesota Public Radio. After a 38-year career in public media, Mulcahy is retiring.  

He has been at MPR News on and off — but mostly on — since 1985. Mulcahy has covered everything from a strike at the Hormel factory to Mikhail Gorbachev's one-day visit to Minnesota, from the unexpected death of former Minnesota governor Rudy Perpich to the Minnesota Twins winning the World Series.  

a radio reporter at a political convention
MPR News senior editor Mike Mulcahy reporting from the 1986 state Independent Republican Convention on June 18, 1986.
Daniel Corrigan

Mulcahy joins MPR News program director Stephanie Curtis to talk about his time at MPR and his storied career.

Guests:  

  • Mike Mulcahy is a senior editor at MPR News and the host of Politics Friday.  

  • Brian Bakst is a politics reporter at MPR News.  

    Micheal Mulchaly
    MPR News senior editor Mike Mulcahy (left), MPR News politics reporter Brian Bakst (center), and MPR News program director Stephanie Curtis (right) in an MPR News studio in St. Paul on Monday.
    Kerem Yücel | MPR News

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