Lisa Johnson
Morning AnnouncerLisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.
Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.
Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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The more time you spend in your garden, chances are the more you'll notice everyone else who wants to hang out there, too. From deer and rabbits to…
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The virtual book launch of Incandescence by Clare Cooley is Wednesday evening, the Freshwater Dance Collective will liven up your evening stroll Friday…
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Last month blew through the previous record (set in 1910) for the hottest June on record - and that's 150 years of records.We got only 40% of the rain we…
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Sigurd Olson is kind of a hero around here. From his work to establish the Boundary Waters and Voyageurs National Park, helping draft the Wilderness Act…
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Three of Minnesota's finest poets - Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, and Thom Tammaro - offered poetic commentary on life in the time of climate change during…
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Linda LeGarde Grover has turned her hand to telling some old stories in her latest book, Gichigami HeartsStories and Histories from Misaabekong: some…
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Jupiter and Saturn have switched spots from a year ago, an asterism is not the same as an asteroid or even an asterisk, the noctilucent clouds may be on…
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UMD student Hooriya Habib is at home with her family in Qatar, but she's getting ready to return to Duluth at the end of August.Hooriya speaks English and…
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Where's Art? If a tree falls in the forest and no one paints it, who will call attention to artists?Perfect Duluth Day turns 18 tomorrow.It can get a tattoo, a license to be an auctioneer, vote, marry without parental consent, buy cigarettes, possess a…
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Karen Diver knows there's a certain amount of backstory non-Native people need to understand where tribal communities are now and how they got there. And…