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
- 'She sat 2 seats away from me': Rep. Erin Koegel reflects on Hortman assassination anniversary
- Prince's estate announces new compilation record alongside single release
- Some Minnesota Medicaid program providers say they were wrongly dropped
- Flanagan says DFL endorsement will play a role in U.S. Senate race
- GOP endorsee Adam Schwarze says party's backing gives him good odds
- Some Minnesota immigrants still live in fear 3 months after 'Operation Metro Surge'
- Minnesota's enduring influence on 'Twin Peaks,' 35 years later
- Chef Sean Sherman: Mining near Boundary Waters an environmental threat
- New book with Minneapolis roots tells ‘How Black Music Took Over the World’
- 'We Are All Immigrants': After ICE surge, this group keeps up quiet resistance
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