Team leader | Duluth/Superior Region

Karen Lundegaard is the team leader for statewide coverage, including our Duluth and St. Cloud bureaus.

Before joining the Star Tribune, Lundegaard was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Detroit and Atlanta. She started her career with American City Business Journals papers in Cincinnati and then Washington DC. She holds a masters in journalism from Northwestern University and is a graduate of Macalester College. She lives in south Minneapolis with her husband, two sons and a mutt named Dart. After succeeding last year in her quest to see a Roger Federer match, she is now plotting to see Serena Williams play.


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