Meet Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval

Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval is an MPR News reporter based in the Fargo-Moorhead area. He covers the region with a focus on agriculture. Tadeo started his journalism career as an intern at Wichita’s NPR station, KMUW. In 2024, he interned at The Wall Street Journal where he produced and hosted a three-part miniseries on Gen Z’s debt. He became the first intern to ever do a miniseries at the Journal. His final internship was at The Washington Post’s audio team in 2025. He produced nine episodes in the 10 weeks he was there.

Tadeo has won several awards during his early career, including a regional Edward R. Murrow award for covering sports betting in Missouri, a best student feature Public Media Journalists Association award for covering a Wichita video rental story and a Society of Professional Journalists award for covering a student-run, pop-up clinic for Mid-Missouri’s Hispanic communities. He is a founding member of one of the only Spanish-speaking radio shows in Mid-Missouri. In 2024, his NAHJ student chapter won the association’s student chapter of the year while he was a co-president of the organization.

Tadeo is a graduate of the University of Missouri - Columbia with a degree in journalism. When he’s not in the audio booth, you can find Tadeo reading a good book at local coffee shops or lost in the vast Minnesota wilderness he’s continuously in awe of.