Meet Dan Gunderson
Dan Gunderson is a correspondent based in Moorhead. He covers general news for a wide swath of western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota with a focus on the environment, agriculture and Indian Country. He has been reporting for MPR News since 1987.
Over his nearly four decades in journalism, Dan’s work has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades, including multiple first place and awards of merit from the Midwest Broadcast Journalist Association’s Eric Sevareid Awards, numerous Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists, second place at the National Headliner Awards, and two USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism fellowships.
Dan has an associate degree in broadcasting from Riverland Community College in Austin. He enjoys exploring Minnesota and experiencing the unique challenges and delights each season brings.
Recent Contributions
- Retiring Dan Gunderson on decades covering the Native community in northwest Minnesota
- Exploring Minnesota, one story at a time: Celebrating Dan Gunderson
- Minnesota minister rediscovers his faith among people in need
- In this west-central Minnesota town, fiddle jams draw players from ages 3 to 86
- Minnesota woman on a quest to preserve stories of disappearing towns
- In Northwest Minnesota, 2 women team up to keep a small-town newspaper alive
- ‘Embrace the slowness’: He left the Twin Cities for a life in the Minnesota woods
- On a northern Minnesota island, arts and inspiration find safe harbor
- Minnesota composer finds insects make bee-autiful music
- Family ties, loyal crowds keep a Minnesota small-town movie theater thriving