
Annie Baxter
Regional Editor, Talking Sense
Meet Annie Baxter
Annie Baxter is the editor of our Talking Sense series, which helps Minnesotans have hard political conversations, better. Previously, she served as an editor on The Wall Street Journal's daily flagship podcast, The Journal.
Annie has a long history with MPR/APM and has worn many hats at the company since 2003. She covered business and the economy first in MPR's regional newsroom and then for the national program Marketplace. And she developed and led two podcasts through the Water Main, American Public Media's initiative focused on water issues. Annie also co-teaches a narrative journalism class at Macalester College.
Recent Contributions
- Sen. Nicole Mitchell guilty of two counts of burglary after multi-day trial
- Nicole Mitchell testifies, insisting she went into stepmother’s home only for a welfare check
- Jury selected in criminal trial of DFL State Sen. Nicole Mitchell
- How to talk to kids about politics without divisive rhetoric
- Walz and other officials tour storm damage in Beltrami County
- Convicted human smugglers get prison sentences after Indian family’s deaths on Canada-U.S. border
- Minnesotans brace for the worst as they check on their homes in the path of the wildfires
- More crews, milder weather slow growth of northeast Minnesota wildfires
- Reinforcements arrive in northeastern Minnesota to help battle growing wildfires
- What Minnesotans are saying about Trump's first 100 days