Jacob Aloi

Jacob Aloi is an award-winning audio journalist based in Minnesota. He currently covers and reviews the arts for Minnesota Public Radio News, and serves as a weekend newscaster. His arts and culture reporting has ranged from profiling a Hmong Shaman, to embedding for four months with the Guthrie Theater to produce a radio special. In 2024, Jacob was a fellow with the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He has appeared on NPR’s It’s Been a Minute and co-hosts the pop culture podcast Cube Critics.

Prior to his work at MPR News, Jacob was involved with Frogtown Community Radio and was a theater technician. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Hamline University.