Jenna Ross
Reporter
Arts and CultureJenna Ross is an arts and culture reporter with the Star Tribune. She specializes in newsy features and in-depth profiles, spotting emerging issues and intriguing characters. The national Society for Features Journalism honored her work with a first-place prize for "Specialty Writing Portfolio" in 2021. Before joining the paper’s arts and entertainment team, she wrote about regional and breaking news as an enterprise reporter. Her favorite stories on that beat seemed to involve big lakes: She captured the winter surfing scene on Lake Superior and profiled the longtime teacher at the one-room schoolhouse on Lake of the Woods. A Duluth native, she published her first newspaper, "The Ross Report," when she was 11 years old.
Latest from Jenna Ross
Stage & Arts
Businesses helped make Minnesota’s arts scene. Can they unmake it?
For years, Twin Cities’ biggest arts organizations enjoyed “extraordinary” giving from homegrown corporations. Now, they’re grappling with steep declines: “We had more to lose.”
November 22, 2024
TV and Media
Minneapolis Fox 9 hires new evening anchor Symone Woolridge
The move brings Woolridge and her partner, a fellow journalist, to the same city for the first time in their careers.
November 20, 2024
Music
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s top administrator to retire
President Jon Limbacher, who led the nonprofit through the pandemic, will retire when his contract’s up in a year. He recently faced criticism from the musicians’ union.
November 8, 2024
Books
‘Governerds’ pack State Theatre in Minneapolis for author Sharon McMahon
A book tour gave devout fans a rare chance to see the Duluth-based Instagram star best known as “America’s Government Teacher.”
October 27, 2024
TV and Media
‘Golden Bachelorette’ sends Minnesota-raised widower Mark Anderson home
Joan Vassos didn’t see a future with Anderson, best known as “Kelsey’s hot dad,” handing roses to four other men. But fans are hoping for another run.
October 17, 2024
TV and Media
Midday switch at MPR: Cathy Wurzer turns over ‘Minnesota Now’ to Nina Moini
After years of leading two Minnesota Public Radio programs, Wurzer will focus on ‘Morning Edition.’
October 14, 2024
Food & Culture
He nurtured the arts in New York Mills and Lanesboro. Can he do it in Warroad?
In a city best known for hockey and manufacturing, John Davis is trying to make a new $20 million arts center “relevant in people’s lives.”
October 5, 2024
Culture
From a dirt road outside Duluth, Sharon McMahon expands her media empire with new book
The former government teacher’s “The Small and the Mighty” celebrates the lesser-known people who “just decide to do things.” She, too, had no grand plan.
September 27, 2024
TV and Media
‘Golden Bachelorette’ sends Minnesota-raised widower Mark Anderson home
Joan Vassos didn’t see a future with Anderson, best known as “Kelsey’s hot dad,” handing roses to four other men. But fans are hoping for another run.
October 17, 2024
TV and Media
Midday switch at MPR: Cathy Wurzer turns over ‘Minnesota Now’ to Nina Moini
After years of leading two Minnesota Public Radio programs, Wurzer will focus on ‘Morning Edition.’
October 14, 2024
Food & Culture
He nurtured the arts in New York Mills and Lanesboro. Can he do it in Warroad?
In a city best known for hockey and manufacturing, John Davis is trying to make a new $20 million arts center “relevant in people’s lives.”
October 5, 2024
Culture
From a dirt road outside Duluth, Sharon McMahon expands her media empire with new book
The former government teacher’s “The Small and the Mighty” celebrates the lesser-known people who “just decide to do things.” She, too, had no grand plan.
September 27, 2024