Meet Ben Hovland
Ben Hovland is a visual journalist for MPR News.
Before joining MPR News, Ben served as a multimedia producer at Sahan Journal, a nonprofit digital newsroom that covers Minnesota’s immigrants and communities of color. His photojournalism has also appeared in The Washington Post, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, NPR, the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the BBC.
Along with his work at MPR News, Ben believes in supporting the next generation of journalists and he dedicates time to mentoring students at MPR News’ Radio Camp, ThreeSixty Journalism, the Center for Broadcast Journalism and the Hubbard School of Journalism at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Recent Contributions
- Our daily check in with MPR photojournalist documenting immigration actions in Minneapolis
- RAGBRAI+M? The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa crosses the border into Minnesota
- Photo essay: My five years photographing George Floyd Square
- Inside a Minneapolis neighborhood’s impromptu speed-skating race on a lake
- Celebrating the winter solstice with a puppet procession in Minneapolis
- Hunting for male voters: Walz steps into the field for the pheasant opener
- Inside the grueling 24-hour ‘Day Across Minnesota’ bike race
- Challenge of the DAMn-ed: 242 miles, 24 hours to bike across Minnesota
- St. Cloud native Alise Willoughby misses the medal in BMX racing, gets 6th place
- High on an Austrian mountain, a Minnesotan finds pieces of his family’s past in a WWII bomber wreck
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