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
- Pilgrim’s worker dies at Cold Spring plant after being pinned under equipment
- Inver Grove Heights meeting erupts into shouts after data center moratorium delayed
- New study outlines costly steps to control ‘forever chemicals’ in east Twin Cities metro
- Minnesota celebrates Juneteenth
- Reward offered in case of Wadena woman who vanished in 1987
- At Minnesota Capitol, pushback from unions, industry halted new regulations on massive data centers
- Appeals court rules against Faribault, says proposed data center needs more environmental study
- Mille Lacs walleye return to same ‘hot spots’ to spawn, protections could be key to their success
- In deeply Catholic central Minnesota, St. Cloud Diocese looks to reduce parishes, close churches
- Could clay halt toxic algae blooms? Minnesota researchers aim to find out
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