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
- Report details human rights abuses by federal government during immigration enforcement surge
- Minneapolis City Council committee votes for 6-month pause on new data centers
- New reward in Wadena missing person case of Carla Beth
- Bemidji Mayor receives national award for leadership after massive storm
- Federal judge denies request from journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort to release grand jury transcripts
- Minnesota lawmakers set out to memorialize a peer lost to political violence, prevent future threats
- Severe storms cause power outages across Minnesota. ICE surge costs Minneapolis $700M
- Air quality expected to be poor throughout central Minnesota. Fargo votes for city leaders
- Investigators say Birch Bay Fire was started by a chainsaw
- Immigration hearings continue at the Whipple Federal Building despite end of surge
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