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. John’s University in central Minnesota sues New York school over ‘Johnnies’ nickname
- Ten years after Morrison County hunter was fatally shot, his family pleads for answers
- 3M to pay $7B to settle claims over ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foam
- Minnesota voters backed school board incumbents, shied away from tax hikes to fund schools
- Jennifer Carnahan loses Nisswa mayor race to Andy Schaefer
- Daisane elected St. Cloud’s first Somali American state lawmaker
- Higher prices have some voters concerned about their future
- Fraud in state government drives some voters to the polls
- Voters turn out in St. Cloud amid tight state legislative races
- GOP governor candidate Lisa Demuth casts early ballot
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