Meet Nina Moini

Nina Moini is an award-winning journalist and new host of MPR’s midday show, Minnesota Now. Since joining MPR News in 2017, Nina’s leadership and role has grown, covering a wide range of topics including public safety and immigration for radio and digital news. She also serves as fill-in newscaster and host for MPR’s All Things Considered and other talk shows and podcasts. Nina hosted the podcast In Front of Our Eyes, which covered the killing of George Floyd and subsequent murder trial. She was co-host of Sunday evening news and variety show The Warming House which aired on MPR News during the winter of 2020-2021 as reprieve from the difficult news surrounding the height of the pandemic. 

Nina was born in Denmark to Iranian parents and immigrated to the United States when she was 5 years old. She grew up in Apple Valley, a suburb of the Twin Cities. A graduate of the University of Missouri, majoring in journalism and political science, Moini is also a former University of Minnesota diversity fellow of the Hubbard School of Journalism.   

Before joining MPR News, Moini reported daily news for WCCO-TV Minneapolis with live reports for CBS This Morning and other CBS affiliates. She started her career as a Special Projects Reporter for Waterman Broadcasting at WBBH/WZVN-TV in Fort Myers, Fla. She has won a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting and Regional Emmy awards for breaking news coverage and morning newscast.