Leila Navidi

Photographer |  Newsroom
Awards and recognition: NPPA Best of Photojournalism, Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, Best of the West, The Associated Press, The Eddie Adams Workshop, Alexia Foundation, Editor and Publisher, Nevada Press Association, Iowa Newspaper Foundation and the Inland Press Association.

Liz Navratil

Higher education reporter |  Higher Education
Navratil worked in Pennsylvania, where she covered state government and crime – and sometimes both at once. She was part of teams that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2019 and 2021.

La Velle E. Neal III

Columnist |  Minnesota Twins
A native of Chicago, La Velle has covered the Minnesota Twins since 1998. He also covered the Kansas City Royals for the Kansas City Star from 1995 through 1997. A graduate of the University of Illinois - Chicago, La Velle is a former president of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Tom Nehil

Newsroom developer |  Newsroom
Originally from Michigan, Tom spent a decade at the nonprofit news website MinnPost before joining the Star Tribune.

Todd Nelson

 |  Newsroom

Emma Nelson

Editor |  St. Paul
Emma Nelson has been a Star Tribune journalist for the past decade, with coverage ranging from politics to women's reproductive health to the economy. As an editor she has led teams of local government reporters, including a group that covered the aftermath of Daunte Wright's killing by a Brooklyn Center police officer. Nelson has won Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One awards for investigative and breaking news reporting, and was part of a team that won the organization's 2022 Story of the Year award for coverage of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Rick Nelson

Reporter |  Dining and Food
Nelson and Taste editor Lee Svitak Dean are publishing "The Great Minnesota Cookie Book: Award-winning recipes from the Star Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest" (University of Minnesota Press) in October 2018.

Connie Nelson

Senior editor |  Lifestyle
Prior to becoming an editor, she wrote extensively on home- and garden-related topics.
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Nancy Ngo

Home & Garden Editor |  Home & Garden

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