Todd Melby
Interim Weekend Editor and Newscaster
tmelby@mpr.org
Todd Melby is a newscaster at MPR News.
He has reported and produced many audio documentaries, including Death’s Footprint and Fly Robin Fly: The Story of that Disco-Crazed Moment when the Gay 90s Came Out of the Closet and Embraced Its Name.
Death’s Footprint and Spirit and Body Willing, audio documentaries co-produced with Diane Richard for Chicago Public Media, won national Edward R. Murrow awards.
His project “Black Gold Boom: How Oil Changed North Dakota,” covered the Bakken oil field. He is also the author of “A Lot Can Happen in the Middle of Nowhere: The Untold Story of the Making of Fargo.”
Recent Contributions
- 2024 has been a deadly year so far on Minnesota roads
- Lynx star Seimone Augustus gets Hall of Fame nod
- Minnesotans mourn Tou Ger Xiong at memorial service
- From St. Paul to Cooperstown? Joe Mauer will soon know the answer
- Shoreview native sets sail in bid for 2024 Summer Olympics
- PWHL Minnesota's Grace Zumwinkle reflects on hat trick in home opener
- The State of Women's Hockey: Minnesota wins 3-0 in PWHL home opener
- Vehicles restricted from Upper Red Lake after 4th ice rescue this month
- Hundreds honor Twin Cities artist and activist Tou Ger Xiong at Woodbury vigil
- U.S. Postal Service payroll glitch skips pay for 2,200 letter carriers