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
- Lambs, family and garlic help this couple build a new life in rural Minnesota
- Grief brought her back to western Minnesota. Now she’s helping restore her hometown
- In NW Minnesota, he turns gears, wire and marbles into art that moves
- Fascinated by fossils, Minnesota man builds a small-town science museum bone by bone
- En el oeste de Minnesota, una mujer ayuda a los nuevos inmigrantes a echar raíces
- In western Minnesota, she helps new immigrants put down roots
- Minnesota sculptor forges a passion for people who put their lives on the line
- Curious minds keep a southern Minnesota book group going for 142 years
- This Black northern Minnesota inventor changed the world. Many Minnesotans don’t know him
- Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm