Meet Phineas Pope
Phineas Pope is the morning newscaster for MPR News.
Prior to MPR, Phineas hosted All Things Considered and Weekend Edition at Northwest Public Broadcasting in Pullman, Wash. There, he also reported stories around the Inland Northwest. Phineas has also worked in production at Iowa Public Radio and Iowa PBS. His reporting work has aired nationally on NPR.
Phineas is also an organist and jazz pianist. He studied music and law at Drake University in Des Moines, and wrote his thesis on forensic musicology issues. Specific interest areas include copyright law, music theory and musicology.
Recent Contributions
- Hotel gardener shares what it takes to keep plants looking good
- U.S. Sen. Smith works to free a Somali man arrested in Minnesota and sent to Guantanamo Bay
- Minneapolis Public Schools considers restructuring plans that would leave over a dozen buildings without K-12 programming
- 150 doctors at Allina Health’s Mercy Hospital and its Unity campus began a four-day strike Monday
- Minnesotans can start casting their ballots in the midterm election this Friday
- Events around Minnesota mark 25 years since the 9/11 attacks
- St. Paul City Council withdraws police department’s resolution seeking federal grant for drone program
- Somali man arrested by ICE in St. Paul is being held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- Most Minnesota schools start classes Tuesday, but some got permission to start earlier
- Diocese of Winona-Rochester's largest insurer to pay $30M to clergy sexual abuse survivors
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