Lorna Benson
Lorna Benson is the deputy managing editor for the regional and politics teams at MPR News. She is a longtime health journalist. Her reporting has centered on urgent public health issues from pandemic flu to measles outbreaks to health disparities. She got her start at MPR’s bureau station in St. Peter covering general assignment stories in southcentral Minnesota.
Recent Contributions
- Cold water danger is real, DNR warns Minnesota boaters, hunters
- Multi-state salmonella outbreak sickens 2 in Minnesota
- This taboo Thanksgiving topic could save your life
- Task force takes aim at delays in mental health care system
- Minnesota laws affecting transgender people under fire
- Health officials weigh testing newborns for disability-causing virus
- MNsure's future even rockier after election
- After chaotic start, day 2 of MNsure open enrollment went better
- Secretary of State Simon target of anti-Semitic online post
- Open enrollment triggers sticker shock for some Minnesotans