Kavahn Mansouri
Former Investigative Reporter, The Midwest NewsroomContact: kmansouri@stlpr.org
Topic Expertise: Housing, education, Freedom of Information Act, government, gun laws
Location: St. Louis
Education: Webster University, Bachelor's Degree in Journalism
Language: English
Geographic Expertise: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois
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 The Midwest Newsroom from the Belleville (Illinois) News-Democrat in 2021. In August 2025, he joined St. Louis Public Radio as its economic development reporter.
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.
Kavahn has honed craft in investigative reporting, in which he seeks to tell stories about how everyday people are affected by complex issues. Through interviewing people and documents alike, he aims to uncover stories in which people in power do wrong.
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One week after a controversial vote to approve rules for a CRG Clayco data center, anti-data center candidates ousted half of the Festus City Council. -
Missouri and other states in the Midwest saw growth over the past year, according to U.S. census data, but declining immigration may bring change to Missouri. -
Sen. Josh Hawley says his bill will track layoffs attributed to replacing workers with AI. A St. Louis expert says "the great AI replacement" could lead to millions of people losing their jobs. -
Toyota announces Missouri plant will get $57 million investment and more jobs as part of hybrid pushCarmaker Toyota announced it will add 57 jobs invest in a new production line at its factory in Troy, Missouri, in order to increase capacity for hybrid cars. -
After residents in St. Charles protested a secretive data center proposal, developer CRG is eyeing Festus, Missouri, as a site for future sites. It's not clear what tax incentives or exemptions the data centers could receive, would would lessen their economic benefit. -
As officials in Missouri try to attract data center proposals from companies, pushback grows in communities where the projects are planned. One expert says the economic benefit isn't crystal clear — especially if local governments give them tax breaks. -
Dorian Johnson died of injuries sustained during a shooting Sunday morning on Abaco Court, less than a mile from where a police officer killed Michael Brown in 2014. -
St. Charles officials signed nondisclosure agreements as they considered a proposed data center project in their city. The agreements were with a company with links to Google. Protests from residents stopped the deal, however. -
Honesty Bishop was attacked by her cellmate. Missouri prison officials deemed her sexually active and kept her in isolation for over six years. -
Carol Mayorga was detained in April during an immigration check-in at the ICE office in St. Louis. But on Wednesday, the beloved pancake house waitress walked free from the Greene County Jail.
