Minnesota Public Radio opens Washington, D.C., bureau

Minnesota Public Radio's Washington, D.C., bureau is up and running, with Berlin-based former NPR reporter and editor Brett Neely as correspondent, says MinnPost media blogger David Brauer. Neely's experience includes reporting and producing for Marketplace, and covering mainly economics for several European public television channels. He grew up in Munich and is in German. He heralded his move stateside with a video of David Bowie's "Changes" on his blog. As Bauer noted, Neely's Twitter feed includes the tagline, ""Public radio wench, but I'd rather be in a hair metal band."