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Phineas Pope

Phineas Pope

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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.

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