Meet Molly Castle Work
Molly Castle Work is an MPR News reporter based in Rochester. She covers health care in southeast Minnesota.
Prior to joining MPR News, Molly worked as an investigative reporter at the Rochester Post Bulletin and later as a correspondent for KFF Health News in California.
Molly has won multiple national and statewide awards over her career, including the Association of Health Care Journalism’s first place investigative award for her coverage of Mayo Clinic’s debt collection activities. Her reporting helped enact new legislation and led to an attorney general investigation. She has contributed to public radio coverage across the country, including NPR and LAist.
Molly is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield and has a degree in English. She earned her masters in journalism from the University of Maryland.
She’s on the lookout for stories that expose issues in rural health care and highlight intriguing characters that are part of the solutions.
You can find Molly Castle Work on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- Voter check-ins: Voters share what issues led them to vote in the primary
- Minnesota lettuce grower Revol Greens may close Owatonna greenhouse and lay off 89 workers
- Southeastern Minnesota's hidden historical gems: Restored Civil War buildings reopen to the public
- Rochester jury finds woman who hurled racial slurs at a Black child on a playground guilty
- Trial begins Monday for woman who called Black child a racial slur in Rochester
- Wildfire smoke spreads: Air quality alert issued through Monday for most of Minnesota
- Red Cross opens temporary evacuation center near Ely
- Air quality alerts spread across Minnesota as wildfires rage, sending smoke south
- Three Wabasha residents dead after boat crash on Lake Pepin
- Soaring costs and end of tax credit leads 17,000 Minnesotans to drop MNSure health coverage
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