
Cathy Wurzer
Host, Morning Edition
Cathy Wurzer is the host of Morning Edition and Minnesota Now on MPR News. She is also the co-host of Almanac, a weekly public affairs program produced by Twin Cities Public Television for Minnesota's statewide public television network. Wurzer has won four Emmy Awards for her work on Almanac. Prior to her return to radio, she was an anchor and reporter for WCCO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Minneapolis. She has also been a talk show host for WCCO-AM radio, a producer for KMSP-TV, and political reporter for KSTP-AM radio. She holds degrees in broadcast journalism and urban studies from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Wurzer was a trustee for the UW-River Falls Foundation and a member and past president of the Society for Professional Journalists Minnesota chapter. She is the author of "Tales of the Road: Highway 61." In her spare time, Cathy rides, trains and shows horses, fly fishes for trout, and loves clay sculpture and creating mosaics.
Recent Contributions
- Lawmakers introduce legislation to ease first time homebuying
- Stillwater prepares for historic spring flooding while planning to remain open
- James Beard nominee Ann Ahmed tells us what's for lunch
- Growth amid 'ambiguous loss': How the pandemic has changed us
- Epidemiologist Michael Osterholm reflects on three years of COVID-19 and looks toward the future
- Minnesota Now: March 23, 2023
- 'Reconnecting with the human': Minnesota podcast tackles humanity, womanhood and Islam
- Dakota Dave Hull's 'Better Late Than Never' album highlights the rare guitar-banjo
- Residents wonder why Monticello nuclear plant didn't mention radioactive water leak earlier
- Minnesota Now March 22 2023