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.
January 30, 1995 -
January 31, 1995 -
January 31, 1995 - Karen-Louise Booth reports on Mayor Sharon Sayles Booth’s firing of Minneapolis police officer Mike Sauro. Segment includes audio from mayor’s press conference and comments from Minneapolis City Council members.
January 31, 1995 -
January 31, 1995 -
February 1, 1995 - MPR’s Marilyn Butler reports on the Minnesota Twins organization completing annual winter caravan, despite an ongoing Major League Baseball strike. That leaves the Twins traveling without star players and looking at the possibility of replacement players for an upcoming MLB 1995 season.
February 2, 1995 - MPR’s Catherine Winter interviews Duluth poet Barton Sutter about his style of poetry and writing process. Segment includes Sutter reading from one of his books.
February 2, 1995 -
February 2, 1995 -
February 3, 1995 - On this segment of First Friday, MPR’s Beth Friend interviews American poet Christopher Merrill, who shares his frustration on the lack of concern in arts community of the Bosnian War tragedy. Segment also includes Merrill reading Bosnian poetry.