Melissa Townsend
Melissa Townsend is a senior producer for MPR News who worked with host Cathy Wurzer to design Minnesota Now. Prior to that she produced the Early Risers podcast from MPR and Little Moments Count.
Recent Contributions
- 5 winter camping tips to get you out and about in the snow
- A doctor answers questions on COVID tests, future variants and more
- Phenomenal phenology reports from young reporters around Minn.
- What's it like to be in high school during the omicron surge?
- As omicron surges, Osseo superintendent faces school staff absences of up to 25 percent
- Reporter Kirsti Marohn on whistleblower case against MN pollution agency
- The longtime director of the NDSU marching band hangs up his whistle
- What it's like to keep a restaurant going during the pandemic
- An 86-year-old organist who fled the Nazis writes his story for the first time
- A leader in the fight against oil pipelines reflects on lessons learned