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
- Molly Yeh’s new cookbook taps into her sweet life on a Minnesota sugar beet farm
- Minnesota state workers continue clash with governor’s office
- In wildly different projects, Duluth musician Alan Sparhawk works through grief
- Extreme heat could stress Minnesota’s health care facilities this weekend
- Dealing with traumatic grief after Minnesota’s recent political violence
- How a Supreme Court ruling on gender-affirming care could impact Minnesotans
- Psychologist shares advice on dealing with grief in the wake of lawmaker shootings
- Rep. Melissa Hortman’s mentor remembers her rise to House Speaker
- Health care safety net braces for higher demand after cancellation of coverage for undocumented immigrants
- Latin-American twists on Minnesota grilling season: asado, churrasco, carne asada and salsas
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