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
- Is forward-facing sonar making fishing in Minnesota too easy?
- Boundary Waters canceled permits, no-shows up last year
- For some in St. Cloud’s Somali community, stress from ICE surge strained mental health
- City of Monticello sets stage for allowing data centers, with restrictions
- In Monticello, city’s proposed rules for data centers spark fierce debate
- 9-year-old student suspected of starting fire at St. Cloud school
- St. Cloud mayor describes year of transition, challenges in first State of City address
- Brainerd City Council allows homeless shelter to operate year round
- Elk River votes to keep flying retired Minnesota state flag
- Judge bars property owner from landing helicopter at his Gull Lake home after lengthy legal dispute
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