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Jeff Hargarten

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Covers:  data, public safety, police accountability, elections, politics, science, technology
Doesn't Cover: arts, entertainment, sports
A Minneapolis-based @StarTribune journalist at the intersection of data analysis, reporting, coding and design.

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Jeff Hargarten’s Biography

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A Minneapolis-based journalist at the intersection of data analysis, reporting, coding and design.

Jeff Hargarten’s Journalist Portfolio

How Minnesota voted for president, precinct by precinct

How Minnesota voted for president, precinct by precinct

Kamala Harris won Minnesota even as Donald Trump claimed victory and a second term as president.

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Amid unsolved Minneapolis homicides, families await justice

Amid unsolved Minneapolis homicides, families await justice

A deadly three-year period at the height of the pandemic has left Minneapolis with the most open homicide cas…

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Nitrate contamination of Minnesota waters shows little sign of going away, despite years of effor...

Nitrate contamination of Minnesota waters shows little sign of going away, despite years of effor...

Farm pollution persists despite hundreds of millions spent to clean it up.

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Every police-involved death in Minnesota since 2000

Every police-involved death in Minnesota since 2000

The Star Tribune collected the names and stories of everyone who died after a physical confrontation with law…

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Minneapolis' bloody summer puts city on pace for most violent year in a generation

Minneapolis' bloody summer puts city on pace for most violent year in a generation

This year is on track to surpass 2020's record-high 9,600 gunfire reports.

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Articles

Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime

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By Deena Winter Verified, Susan Du Verified, Jeff Hargarten Verified
| The Brunswick News Verified
MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis police rarely responded to immigration-related emergency calls during Operation Metro Surge, even as the department spent $10 million on overtime and standby pay preparing for unrest that largely never materialized. In December, then-Minneapolis police Chief Brian O'Hara urged citizens to call 911 if they witnessed apparent kidnappings by masked people in the street and were unsure if they were actually law enforcement.
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Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime

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By Deena Winter Verified, Susan Du Verified, Jeff Hargarten Verified
| Kansas City Star Verified
A protester sits in the street in front of a group of federal agents and Minneapolis police officers at West 27th Street and Nicollet Avenue after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime

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By Deena Winter Verified, Susan Du Verified, Jeff Hargarten Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE. A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of a gaggle of federal agents and Minneapolis Police on W. 27th St and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, Minn. on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Federal agents fatally shot a man during an arrest in the morning.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

As a staff reporter for the Minnesota Daily.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

How is social media changing news?

It's aiding the change in how people are absorbing information, which is incidentally and by osmosis through tiny headlines and snippets.

Awards

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Pulitzer Prize

2021 - Breaking News

For its urgent, authoritative and nuanced coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis and of the reverberations that followed.

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Investigative Reporters and Editors Award

2021 - Investigation Triggered by Breaking News

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, the Star Tribune quickly pulled together a team to provide context to the incident and investigated the processes that allowed it to happen.

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2021 - Page One Award: Investigative/Enterprise

Third Place for "How Minneapolis policing changed during a historic summer of turmoil"

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2020 - Page One: Best Info-graphic / Data Visualization

Third Place for "Take a guided tour of Minneapolis in 1907"

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2019 - Page One: Best Info-graphic / Data Visualization

Second Place for "How Minnesota voted for governor, neighborhood by neighborhood"

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Al Nakkula Award

2017 - Police Reporting

First place award for "A Cry for Help" along with Jennifer Bjorhus, Kelly Smith, Richard Tsong-Taatarii and MaryJo Webster.

National Headliner Award

2017 - First Place (Web or Interactive Project)

A big recognition for "A Cry for Help".

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