Meet Gretchen Brown
Gretchen Brown is lead producer for All Things Considered on MPR News.
Gretchen has a decade of experience in traditional print, digital and broadcast journalism. Before joining MPR News in 2022, Gretchen spent time as a crime reporter in Willmar, as a talk show producer for Wisconsin Public Radio in Milwaukee and was the editor at the helm of a national PBS digital publication for young adults. She also spent time as an intern at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis and at her collegiate independent student newspaper.
Gretchen’s work has received several awards, her most recent being two Page One Awards from the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists and an Eric Sevareid Award from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Gretchen has a bachelor's degree in communication with a minor in history from the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph. She has an orange cat named Clem, and in her free time loves going to Pilates classes, rock shows and thrift stores.
Recent Contributions
- At this Minnesota mosque, Eid al-Fitr is a time for joy after a difficult year
- Demolishing Midway CVS is a step forward, St. Paul business owner says
- Muslim civil rights group: Congressman's fraud bill 'discriminatory and deeply irresponsible'
- How a Rochester high schooler called the snow day for the district
- Time for bean pie? Pi Day and Ramadan overlap this year
- Considering housing shortage, some advocates propose requiring fewer staircases
- Investigation: DHS increasingly targeting U.S. citizens
- Klobuchar: White House official said federal agents in Minnesota near 'original footprint,' contradicting Noem's claim
- Report: Minnesotan, 5 other U.S. soldiers were killed in shipping container-style building
- St. Paul pastor testifies in front of Congress: 'No nation can build a true future on the terror of its own people'
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