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New editorial opening.

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The Senior Editor, Investigations, will be a leader in our nationally renowned investigative, podcast, and documentary journalism unit, APM Reports, and the award-winning newsroom at MPR News. In addition to top-flight narrative audio chops, the ideal candidate will have the flexibility to shape stories across a variety of channels, including digital long-reads, data visualizations, social media and video. In this role, the ability to work collaboratively with leaders and teams from other departments and other news organizations is essential. The Senior Editor will work on future seasons of our hit podcast Sold a Story and another investigative podcast currently in development, as well as collaborations with MPR News and other public media organizations. There will also be opportunities for them to act as a player/coach with the teams they lead.
January 20, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Agents didn’t give her CPR and turned away the help of a man who said he was a doctor.
ICE agents are trained in CPR. They didn’t use it on Renee Macklin Good
Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis. After a brief medical assessment, they left her bleeding in her car. Age...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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A company allegedly used to launder money stolen from the government in the Feeding Our Future fraud case owns at least five houses where taxpayer-funded group homes operate. Those group home businesses have collected millions of dollars from the government.
Feeding Our Future defendant connected to taxpayer-funded group homes in Twin Cities
A company allegedly used to launder money stolen from the government in the Feeding Our Future fraud case owns five houses where taxpayer-funded group homes operate. Those group homes have collected m...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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A New Yorker article that says, in part: "Calkins eventually added phonics to Units of Study, partly in response to Hanford’s reporting. Nevertheless, in 2023, New York City began phasing out the curriculum, which it had used for years. The city recently released test results showing that the number of students meeting the bar for proficiency has risen by seven percentage points. (Columbia’s Teachers College moved away from Units of Study, too.) "Anne Wicks, an education and economics specialist at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, told me that Hanford’s podcast helped transform what had been a relatively obscure academic debate into an approachable subject for laypeople."
December 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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In Season 1, the Sold a Story podcast dispelled one of the big myths about learning to read: that schools didn't need to teach kids how to sound out letters.

Host Emily Hanford says new myths are popping up to take its place. Catch up at soldastory.org.
December 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Early in her teaching career, Margaret Goldberg was skeptical of the science of reading. Today, she is working with neuroscientist Reid Lyon to bring it into more classrooms. Lyon and Goldberg joined host Emily Hanford for a live conversation.

New in the Sold a Story podcast feed today.
Emily Hanford LIVE from Planet Word with Reid Lyon and Margaret Goldberg
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December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Politically prominent Nevada GOP activist and donor Robert Beadles has taken credit for hiring a private investigator who tracked Reno's mayor 3 years ago, ending a yearslong legal saga to unmask him as the client despite his attempts to remain anonymous.

By @tabithamueller.bsky.social:
Robert Beadles confirms he hired private investigator who tracked Reno mayor
The GOP activist, who has touted election fraud conspiracies, came forward after trying for years to remain anonymous. The U.S. Supreme Court declined his case.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The Deputy Managing Editor (DME) guides the APM Reports team within MPR News. This is a national award-winning, ambitious, enterprising unit of investigative and documentary reporters, producers, and editors. The DME is responsible for the team’s complex and consequential works of original revelatory journalism on all channels. We are looking for an experienced investigative editor committed to creating essential and engaging journalism that serves the public interest. The editor will be an inspiring and insightful leader and mentor, upholding standards of journalism excellence, and setting the team’s vision in collaboration with their supervisor. Exceptional communication, expertise in investigative and data reporting, as well as partnership development are all critical for the candidate’s success. The DME will be responsible for working with each team member to set their coverage plans, goals, and deliverables. In addition, this role works to foster a collaborative team culture within MPR News, as APM Reports leads enterprise and investigative reporting across Minnesota, the region, and the nation. The editor will be in charge of juggling stories in various stages of completion, from long-term investigations to quick-breaking scoops often requiring close coordination with various stakeholders, teams, and departments, with air-tight attention to detail and accuracy in every story. The DME will work directly with other news and community partners on local investigative journalism projects and may be required to assist in grant reporting, monitoring, and foundation relations. Currently APM Reports continues its extraordinary education reporting, soldastory.org, and is focusing on mental health, as well as leading enterprise work of relevance in Minnesota and the upper Midwest region.
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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This job will be the boss of everyone here at APM Reports.

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APM Reports strives to raise awareness, trigger debate and prompt positive change via non-partisan, independent investigative and documentary journalism. We are located in St. Paul, Minnesota, as part of American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio.
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Teachers, parents and community members: We've added new discussion guides to help you talk about the podcast Sold a Story: soldastory.org/discuss
October 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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By our @carmela.bsky.social. More at soldastory.org.
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The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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In the past three years, 26 states have enacted laws to better align reading instruction with scientific research.

We updated our map to include Missouri.

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A map of the United States shows states that have enacted laws in the past three years. They are colored three shades of blue to represent the year of the legislation.
August 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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For decades, the federal government has surveyed high school students — and repeatedly followed up with them as adults. The goal was to gather data on their educational choices and careers so researchers could draw connections between them.
August 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administration agreed to finish the research only after it was sued.
Lawsuit saves massive reading experiment
The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administ...
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August 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Episode 14: The Cuts

Listen at soldastory.org.
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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In 2017, the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California, exposed a new threat to public health: Wildfires can contaminate drinking water with toxic chemicals that federally mandated testing is not designed to catch.
August 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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NAEP is one of the few education initiatives Trump has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed staff responsible for keeping tests up to date. And the board overseeing the assessment has eliminated more than a dozen tests, citing “cost efficiencies.”

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‘At what point does it break?’ Nation’s Report Card at risk, researchers say
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is one of the few federal education initiatives that the Trump Administration has vowed to preserve. But the administration has slashed the staff respon...
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August 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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New episode of Sold a Story.

𝟭𝟰: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀
The Trump administration is slashing government funding for science and dismantling the Dept of Ed. We look at what the cuts mean for the science of reading — and the effort to get that science into schools.

Listen: www.apmreports.org/episode/2025...
An illustration depicts workers leaving the Department of Education after losing their jobs.
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have accelerated overdoses for Black men ages 55 to 74, who have suffered disproportionately for decades.

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Overdose deaths disproportionately impact older Black men. Few programs in Minnesota exist to support them
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have accelerated overdoses for Black men ages 55 to 74, who have suffered disproportionately for decades. One Ramsey County nonprofit is working to fill the gap.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Four Minneapolis police trainers were accused of using excessive force in civil lawsuits the city settled before they received their current assignments, according to a review of federal court documents.

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Four Minneapolis officers were accused of excessive force — and now train other police
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke and until recently led MPD’s use-of-force training is not the only trainer whose record has raised concerns over the department’s commitment ...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Every two weeks for the past three years, a police officer has boarded a plane near his home in Sydney, Australia, to commute to work – in Bethel, Alaska.

A story with @sgsmly.bsky.social at KYUK.

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Bethel Police say 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off schedules work. Some community members disagree
In the past decade, Bethel has increasingly relied on a policing system where officers work for two weeks, then take two weeks off. This lets some officers commute from thousands of miles away. And wh...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness — conditions few of the facilities are equipped to handle.

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‘We did not want to take this guy’: Abuse rates higher at nursing homes with more mental illness
Nursing homes are designed to care for patients with physical infirmities. But nationwide, 1 in 5 residents has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia or psychosis — condi...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The school reform program Success for All, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows it gets great results, especially when it comes to elementary reading skills.

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Success for All gets kids reading. Why don’t more schools use it?
The school reform program, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even though a mountain of research shows it gets great results, especially when it ...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Here's @katereports.bsky.social on the impact of her reporting on Illinois hospitals.

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July 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Some people say antidepressants left them with debilitating symptoms for years — even decades — after going off the medications. Their ranks are growing online as they push for recognition and research. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...
After quitting antidepressants, some people suffer surprising, lingering symptoms
Some people say antidepressants left them with debilitating symptoms for years — even decades — after going off the medications. Their ranks are growing online as they push for recognition and researc...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM