MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
March 18, 1989 -
March 18, 1989 -
March 18, 1989 -
March 20, 1989 - MPR’s Bill Wareham profiles new Replacements album. Wareham interviews lead singer Paul Westerberg about the band’s third major label album release, “Don’t Tell a Soul.” Wareham also speaks with John Lassman, music director KQRS, who discusses how single “I’ll be You” and the new album as a whole, are more radio accessible (mainstream) than previous Replacements work.
March 23, 1989 -
March 25, 1989 - MPR’s Mark Heistad interviews Craig and Nadine Blacklock about Border Country: The Quetico-Superior Wilderness, a book by Tom Klein, which features nature photography by the Blacklocks.
March 25, 1989 -
March 25, 1989 -
April 3, 1989 - MPR’s Jim Bickal checks in with Minnesota Twins players to get their take of what the 1989 Major League Baseball season may hold for the team. There is positive outlook and hopes that season will start well…as opposed to the slow start in 1988, which cost team later.
April 5, 1989 - MPR’s Leif Enger profiles John Lyght, Minnesota's first African American sheriff. Born and raised in Cook County, Lyght became sheriff of his hometown.