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Jon Gordon

Jon Gordon

Social media and mobile news editor
Minnesota Public Radio
jgordon@mpr.org

Jon Gordon is responsible for social media, audience engagement and mobile news content for MPR News. He joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1983 as an 18-year-old intern at KRSW in Worthington, Minn. Since then, he has worn many hats as assistant/associate producer, reporter and host while working at MPR stations in Bemidji, St. Peter and St. Paul. In 1997, Gordon left St. Paul for San Francisco, Calif., to pursue technology reporting for Minnesota Public Radio. As host and producer of Future Tense, his job was to remain alert of the rapidly changing technological world, and to present the most important and interesting information in a simple, straightforward manner. Gordon's work has been recognized by the Associated Press, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Northwest Broadcast News Association, and UCLA's Anderson School of Business.

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Bill McKibben

Environmentalist McKibben on the "terrifying math" of climate change

Bill McKibben is using math as a tool of persuasion in his fight against climate change. The author, educator and environmentalist is in the Twin Cities for a stop on his "Do the Math" tour. (The Daily Circuit, 11/29/2012)
Jeff Ebert

Military treating PTSD victims with virtual reality

Virtual reality can be an effective therapy for military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to researchers. It's also being used to reduce symptoms and prevent PTSD in combat soldiers. (The Daily Circuit, 11/28/2012)
Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in New Ulm, Minn.

Get out there: 7 things to do in New Ulm, Minn.

New Ulm tourism revolves around several annual music and cultural festivals, including Bavarian Blast and Oktoberfest -- but there are fun things to do any time of the year. With the help of recommendations by New Ulm residents in our Public Insight Network, we've assembled a list of seven thnigs to do in this city of 13,500. (09/15/2012)

Reports of severe weather in Minn.

Reports of severe weather are coming in from around the state. (03/19/2012)

LIVE-BLOG: Minn. AG announcing anti-bullying legislation

We're live-blogging Attorney General Lori Swanson's announcement of proposed legislation that would bolster Minnesota's weak bullying laws. (11/23/2011)

Live blog: Debt downgrade reaction, Minnesota news

In Minnesota, local governments are watching markets closely this morning to figure out if the downgrade in the national debt credit rating will affect them. (08/08/2011)

News Cut: Google pulls a Grinch and steals our fiber announcement

Duluth and other Minnesota cities that applied to be home to a super-high-speed fiber network promised by Google are being forced to wait until next year for a decision. Google has concluded it got too many applications. (12/15/2010)

Jon Gordon on the Comcast DNS server outage

Comcast customers in and around the Twin Cities, Chicago and Detroit should have had their internet access restored today. An outage that lasted about four hours last night kept people from getting online. (12/06/2010)

Comcast customers use social network to cope with outage

Many Twin Cities customers of Comcast's Internet service found an effective workaround to a widespread outage that lasted about four hours Sunday night. (12/06/2010)