Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013 after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.
Jany got his start in journalism in the sports department of his hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He attended Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Ore.) and Mississippi State University, majoring in communications with a minor in sociology. In his free time, he likes traveling, having visited 25 countries on six continents, including Pakistan, in the summer of 2017. He was born in Czechoslovakia and has lived in Gabon, France, and seven U.S. states.
