Jenna Ross

Reporter

Arts and Culture

Jenna Ross is an arts and culture reporter with the Minnesota Star Tribune. She specializes in newsy features and in-depth profiles, spotting emerging issues and intriguing characters. The national Society for Features Journalism honored her work with a first-place prize for "Specialty Writing Portfolio" in 2021. Before joining the paper’s arts and entertainment team, she wrote about regional and breaking news as an enterprise reporter. Her favorite stories on that beat seemed to involve big lakes: She captured the winter surfing scene on Lake Superior and profiled the longtime teacher at the one-room schoolhouse on Lake of the Woods. A Duluth native, she published her first newspaper, "The Ross Report," when she was 11 years old.

Jenna Ross is an arts and culture reporter with the Minnesota Star Tribune. She specializes in newsy features and in-depth profiles, spotting emerging issues and intriguing characters. The national Society for Features Journalism honored her work with a first-place prize for "Specialty Writing Portfolio" in 2021. Before joining the paper’s arts and entertainment team, she wrote about regional and breaking news as an enterprise reporter. Her favorite stories on that beat seemed to involve big lakes: She captured the winter surfing scene on Lake Superior and profiled the longtime teacher at the one-room schoolhouse on Lake of the Woods. A Duluth native, she published her first newspaper, "The Ross Report," when she was 11 years old.

Contact

jenna.ross@startribune.com

612-673-7168

Latest from Jenna Ross

Stage & Arts

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra taps rainy day fund to balance budget

The nonprofit’s leaders cited rising costs among the many challenges during the 2024 fiscal year.

December 10, 2024

Stage & Arts

Businesses helped make Minnesota’s arts scene. Will shrinking support break it?

For years, Twin Cities’ biggest arts organizations enjoyed “extraordinary” giving from homegrown corporations. Now, they’re grappling with steep declines: “We had more to lose.”

November 26, 2024

TV and Media

Minneapolis Fox 9 hires new evening anchor Symone Woolridge

The move brings Woolridge and her partner, a fellow journalist, to the same city for the first time in their careers.

November 20, 2024

Music

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s top administrator to retire

President Jon Limbacher, who led the nonprofit through the pandemic, will retire when his contract’s up in a year. He recently faced criticism from the musicians’ union.

November 8, 2024