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Jennifer Bjorhus

Investigative reporter  |  Business

Phone: 612-673-4683

E-mail: jennifer.bjorhus@startribune.com

Jennifer Bjorhus joined the Star Tribune’s business section in October 2008. Prior to that she worked as an enterprise business reporter at the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, focusing on housing and the economy. She won several awards for “Uneasy Street,” a groundbreaking series of stories investigating the early stages of the foreclosure crisis in the Twin Cities. Bjorhus returned to Minnesota in 2002 after reporting for the San Jose Mercury News, where she was part of the newspaper’s strike team covering California’s power crisis and reported special projects on tech factories in Mexico and laid-off Silicon Valley tech workers returning to India. She previously worked for The Oregonian, The Seattle Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. She holds two masters degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Asian Studies and in Journalism.

Recent content from Jennifer Bjorhus

• Going after Petters online
  As a disgruntled investor files a suit in Chicago related to the alleged Ponzi scheme, a foundation starts a website.
  Nov 23, 2009
• Trial followers can't get enough
  For attorneys, law students and regular folks, the Petters saga has it all.
  Nov 22, 2009
• Xcel execs fly high, at ratepayers' expense
  Xcel Energy Inc. has taken heat for charging Minnesota ratepayers for lavish entertainment expenses, but it also operates costly airplanes that ferry employees almost daily, primarily between Denver and St. Paul.
  Nov 19, 2009
• MPR aims to become bigger player in news market
  The public radio giant is expanding its newscasts and beefing up digital services as local newspapers and other media outlets struggle.
  Nov 17, 2009
• Investor sues, alleging manipulation of MathStar stock
  Many of the tiny tech company's stockholders live in Minnesota; at stake is $14 million in cash on the shell firm's balance sheet.
  Nov 10, 2009
• Star Tribune to cut 100 more jobs
  The reductions come as the newspaper tries to find a strategy that will bring growth.
  Nov 9, 2009
• Jacobs clears deck for Genmar bid
  The longtime CEO of the boat builder is resigning so he can bid for the company in bankruptcy court free of conflicts of interest.
  Nov 9, 2009
• Petters feared mob hit
  Whistle-blower Deanna Coleman tells jury she saw no sign that his life was in danger.
  Nov 4, 2009
• Robert Sabes has long history in Minneapolis
  Tom Petters' taped accusations about Robert and Jon Sabes, played in court Tuesday, are not the Sabes family's first brush with controversy. Robert W. Sabes, 69, lives in Las Vegas now. But his many years in gaming, restaurants and the investment business in the Twin Cities earned him considerable wealth and standing as a philanthropist -- as well as the occasional headline.
  Nov 3, 2009
• Winning the vaccine lottery
  Though some children landed H1N1 flu shots, the supply is still only trickling into the state.
  Oct 26, 2009

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