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
- St. Cloud City Council nixes resolution affirming broad support of law enforcement
- DNR bills central Minnesota woman nearly $150,000 for costs of fighting wildfire
- Pension shortfall leaves many Minnesota Catholic school, church employees in limbo
- Report: Minnesota to see billions in costs from impacts of climate change
- En el centro de Minnesota, una familia que teme ser deportada se esconde del ICE
- In central Minnesota, a family fearing deportation hides from ICE
- Anglers on Mille Lacs Lake can keep three walleye this summer
- Trump says he's replacing Homeland Security Secretary Noem with GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin
- University of Minnesota expert helped make animated beavers in ‘Hoppers’ true to life
- ICE surge tests relations between St. Cloud police, community
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