MPR People

Editor
Minnesota Public Radio
ekerr@mpr.org

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Euan mortified his mother with his first published effort, in the school magazine ("I like when my parents have dinner parties because we get to eat the leftovers." E. Kerr, age 5.) He fell in love with radio at the University of Stirling. The campus station was housed next to the coal cellar in a fake castle; not pretty, but it allowed the claim "URA, the Castle on the Air." The castle has since burned down, proving Euan's theory it was a poor choice of studio site. He later received two significant messages: 1) His academic adviser said there was only one job in social psychology in Scotland, his field of interest, and as the adviser had it at the time, Euan was out of luck. 2) Euan's girlfriend said they should try living in the same city, and as she had a job, and he didn't, he should move to Minneapolis. So after studying journalism at the U of M, and working at many stations, he landed a half-time job at MPR as legal affairs research assistant. In time, that became a full-time reporting job, covering Minneapolis and the arts. He quit in 1990 to return to Scotland to work for the BBC. Back in the Twin Cities two years later, he became news director at KFAI, then the arts reporter with MPR. One day when he was not looking, he got made an editor. He now works primarily with MPR's bureau reporters, while occasionally doing arts pieces and writing for Movie Natters, his film blog.