Before joining Minnesota Public Radio, David Molpus worked at National Public Radio for 28 years. Molpus has served as an NPR senior correspondent, newscaster, producer and show host. Molpus was NPR's first national labor correspondent based in Washington, D.C. In his most recent NPR assignment, Molpus was national workplace correspondent reporting on issues such as workforce downsizing, the office environment, work-family balance questions, and business ethics.

A recipient of numerous awards, Molpus was honored in June 2003 with the "Media Award" from The Conference Board of New York for "outstanding coverage of the workplace." Molpus was also NPR's first national correspondent covering the American South. He was based in Chapel Hill, N.C., and most recently Tampa, Fla.

During the Reagan Administration, Molpus was the NPR Pentagon correspondent, accompanying the Army's 10th Mountain Division into Haiti during the U.S. intervention there. His work in Haiti earned him the Overseas Press Club award. Molpus was part of the NPR reporting team that won an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for coverage of the Gulf War. Molpus also co-hosted NPR's Weekend All Things Considered for two years, and was a frequent substitute host on Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Sunday.

Molpus earned a masters degree from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and is also the recipient of the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, 1999-2000.