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Kavahn Mansouri, Investigative Reporter

Kavahn Mansouri

Investigative Reporter, Midwest Newsroom

Contact: kmansouri@kcur.org

Topic Expertise: Housing, education, Freedom of Information Act, government, gun laws

Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Education: Webster University, Bachelor's Degree in Journalism

Language: English

Local & Demographic Expertise: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska

Honors & Awards: Knight Chair Award for Best Investigative Reporting (2nd Place, Illinois Press Association), Community Service Reporting (1st place, Illinois Press Association), Freedom of Information Award (1st place, Illinois Press Association)

Memberships: Investigative Reporters and Editors

About Kavahn

Kavahn Mansouri joined KCUR 89.3 and the Midwest Newsroom from the Belleville (Illinois) News-Democrat in 2021.

There, his beat focused on covering local government, with a mission to hold elected officials and public agencies accountable. He also contributed to the breaking news beat daily and maintained the paper’s Public Pay Database, which tracks salaries and wages at taxpayer-funded institutions throughout the state.

A native of St. Louis, Kavahn is a graduate of Webster University. He started reporting when he was 15 years old, working on his high school newspaper.

Since Kavahn has honed my craft into investigative reporting, where he seeks to tell stories about how every day people are affected by complex issues. Through interviewing people and documents alike, he aims to uncover stories in which people in power do wrong.