Meet Kirsti Marohn
Kirsti Marohn is a correspondent based in Collegeville covering central Minnesota communities, water and the environment. She started at MPR News in 2017.
Kirsti started her journalism career in 1996 as a reporter and editor at the Pine River Journal in Pine River. She then served as a reporter at the St. Cloud Times for nearly 20 years, covering state and local government, investigative stories and the environment. She has also worked as a correspondent for USA Today.
Kirsti’s work has been honored with several awards, including a National Headliner Award for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards, and awards of merit from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Kirsti graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history. She lives in Brainerd with her husband, two daughters and a Lab-Shar Pei mix named Gryffindor. She spends her free time running, hiking, kayaking, reading and traveling, and she enjoys taking annual trips to her happy place — the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — with her family.
You can find Kirsti Marohn on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- A Minnesota ‘lake killer’ surfaced 11 years ago. There’s still no long-term fix.
- Mail-in voting in Minnesota gets underway as normal after Supreme Court rejects Trump’s order
- Many Minnesotans don’t value aquatic plants. The state’s lakes are paying a price.
- New museum tells Minnesota veterans’ stories from Civil War to post-9/11
- Shallow water at public landings creates hazard for Minnesota boaters
- Hastings sues 3M over ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
- Thousands of fish die in Mille Lacs Lake as temperatures climb
- Former leader of St. Cloud cemetery accused of embezzling more than $350,000 from nonprofit
- Brainerd fish house company to pay $115,000 to settle discrimination claim
- Reeling from middle schooler suicides, Brainerd school district aims to prevent more deaths
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