Meet Dan Kraker
Dan Kraker is an MPR News reporter based in Duluth where he covers the people, economy and environment of northeast Minnesota.
Before joining MPR News, Dan worked at KNAU Arizona Public Radio for 11 years, first as a reporter covering northern Arizona's Native nations and then as news director. He also contributes regularly to National Public Radio programs and Marketplace.
Dan has won several major awards over his career, including two National Edward R. Murrow Awards for coverage of Native American issues in the southwest, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism award for his coverage of climate change in Minnesota, and Best in Show at the National Headliner Awards for his profile of "wild ice" skaters in northern Minnesota.
Dan is a graduate of Miami University in Ohio with a degree in English and political science. He lives in Duluth with his wife and three daughters (and a black lab named Oscar). He's constantly on the lookout for good stories and intriguing characters in northeast Minnesota, and he's always up for a paddle, pedal, tromp or ski.
You can find Dan Kraker on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- Why a green burial cemetery is dividing residents in northeast Minnesota
- Dispute over green cemetery heads to court amid growing interest in natural burials
- 12,000 acres of forest and wetlands in northeast Minnesota now public after land purchase
- Huge crowd expected for 50th anniversary memorial of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
- Massive Duluth freeway interchange project nearly finished, replacing 'Can of Worms'
- State regulators approve sale of northern MN public utility to private investors
- How will the federal government shutdown affect Minnesota?
- Duluth faces severe housing crunch as population inches up
- The once famous, trailblazing Minnesota nature writer you’ve probably never heard of
- ‘A historic thing’: Duluth dispensary is first state-licensed microbusiness to sell cannabis