Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series welcomes American Public Media's Tess Vigeland, host of Marketplace Money, to Macalester College on Wednesday, November 14.

Vigeland will give a speech entitled "Consumed: Is Our Culture Sustainable?"—an examination of what she has learned through the Consumed series on Marketplace Money.

WHAT: Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series welcomes American Public Media's Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland for a speech entitled "Consumed: Is Our Culture Sustainable?"

WHEN: Wednesday, November 14, 7–8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul

TICKETS: FREE, but tickets are required. Tickets can be found at all four Twin Cities Bibelot Shops locations beginning November 2

TUNE IN: The event will be recorded for broadcast (broadcast date TBA).

MEDIA: Print, broadcast and internet journalists are welcome to attend. Please contact Jennifer Haugh at (651) 290-1369 or jhaugh@mpr.org for accommodations, including a media mult box.

About Tess Vigeland
A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Vigeland is a longtime public radio veteran and familiar voice to Marketplace and Marketplace Money listeners. Vigeland served as host of Marketplace Morning Report for three and a half years and as substitute host on Marketplace.

Prior to joining the team at Marketplace, Vigeland reported and anchored for Oregon Public Broadcasting radio and television in Portland and at WBUR radio in Boston. She has covered numerous national and international stories, including the Northern Ireland peace talks in Belfast, the New England mob trials and the separate but tandem scandals around former U.S. Senator Bob Packwood and figure skater Tonya Harding.

Vigeland has earned numerous awards in her reporting career, including five Associated Press awards and three from the Society of Professional Journalists. For her coverage of the Packwood scandal, she received a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award.

About MPR's Broadcast Journalist Series
Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series, now in its 12th season, commissions journalists and correspondents for a 24-hour residency four times a year. While here, they share their insights on their craft as well as on people and events that affect them professionally. Past journalists include Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist Thomas Friedman and NPR's Deborah Amos, Alex Chadwick, Don Gonyea and Martin Kaste.

Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series is sponsored by Macalester College, The Bibelot Shops and Dorsey & Whitney.

Minnesota Public Radio® operates a 37-station radio network serving virtually all of Minnesota and parts of surrounding states and produces programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences. Programs produced by Minnesota Public Radio, operating as American Public Media,™ reach more than 15 million listeners nationwide each week. Of those, more than 800,000 listen regionally, in Minnesota and surrounding states. A complete list of stations, programs and additional services can be obtained at www.mpr.org and www.americanpublicmedia.org.

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