The following stories are career highlights from John’s decade as a journalist. For a comprehensive list of his work, go to his profile at MPR News or search his name at The Daily Gazette.
Scars remain, 10 years after the Red Lake school shooting
MPR News, USA Today, Red Lake Nation News
Awards:
First Place – Writing Radio Division | Associated Press
First Place – Page One Awards | Society of Professional Journalists
Lovely bones: Skull man of Bemidji strips taxidermy to its core
MPR News
Award:
Eric Sevareid Award of Merit – Audio | Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association
Ojibwe boxers fight for discipline, forgiveness
MPR News, Red Lake Nation News
Award:
Edward R. Murrow Award – Sports Reporting | Radio Television Digital News Association
Fatal brain disease threatens $1B deer-hunting industry
MPR News
Award:
Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists award for Special Project/In-depth Series
Whatever happened to the Marshall County cop who hit a UFO?
MPR News, The UFO Chronicles, Inforum
Young people don’t want to be morticians. Except for Victor.
MPR News, Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report
A proper burial for Lobo, the deer-killing monster who wasn’t a monster at all.
MPR News, Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report
Frozen. Thawed. Not dead: Jean Hilliard’s miraculous Minnesota story
MPR News, Albert Lea Tribune
