Jimmy Lovrien
Duluth, Minn.-based reporter
I am an environmental and data journalist based in Duluth, Minn., where I cover the City of Duluth, environment and Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District for the Duluth News Tribune.
During my time at the News Tribune, I’ve earned multiple awards from the Minnesota Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Minnesota Newspaper Association for investigative and breaking news reporting.
I recently completed a data fellowship through the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and was a fellow at Metcalf Institute’s Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists at the University of Rhode Island.
You can read my most recent stories here.
Click the following links to read selected articles from the following topics:
Data journalism — Enterprise — Climate change — Isle Royale series — On-air appearances
Data journalism
As a 2025 data fellow through the USC Center for Health Journalism, I spent five months refining data journalism skills and investigating the public health effects of Duluth’s aging housing stock. Through that, I produced a three-part series that showed lead paint was poisoning children in Duluth neighborhoods that had older homes, more renters, higher rates of poverty and were less white than the rest of the city. Those characteristics also applied to areas of the city that were less likely to have air conditioning, meaning more frequent heat waves will disproportionately affect the city’s most vulnerable residents, another story found.
And finally, I mapped where the city’s lead lines were and where the city was — or was not — replacing them.
That fellowship helped strengthen data skills I had been building for years, including R programming, QGIS, Datawrapper, Google Sheets and Flourish.
Prior data-driven stories include:
Enterprise
Climate change
Isle Royale series
In August 2021, I made two reporting trips to the remote Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior with Duluth News Tribune videographer Samantha Erkkila and photographer Steve Kuchera collecting stories from Grand Portage Band members about their traditional cultural land and families that have had cabins there since before it was a national park.
On-air
Radio and TV shows occasionally will interview me about my work. If you would like to request an interview, email me at [email protected].
