Kristofor Husted
Investigative Editor, Midwest NewsroomContact: krishusted@kcur.org
Job title: Investigative Editor
Topic expertise: Editing and reporting investigative and in-depth journalism for audio and digital platforms. Science, health, environment, agriculture and climate.
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Education: Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism (2011) MS, Journalism.
University of California, Davis (2006) BS, Cell Biology.
Language: English
Honors & Awards: Public Media Journalists Association, Headliner, Sigma Delta Chi and RTDNA/Edward R. Murrow awards.
About Kris
As the Midwest Newsroom’s investigative editor, Kris strives to amplify voices from the region our audiences don’t often hear from. He works with our reporters to seek out stories and experiences that help broaden perspectives and hold people accountable. Kris also seeks to share our team’s reporting in all kinds of mediums to meet our audiences where they are.
At the end of the day, Kris wants people to engage with journalism that helps them make choices in their life – at the grocery store, at the ballot box, at the school board meeting, and so on.
Kris is a founding member of The Midwest Newsroom team, joining us as senior content editor in 2021. He became our investigative editor in 2024.
He has spent time reporting for NPR’s science desk, Harvest Public Media and KBIA in Columbia, Missouri. His teaching background at the Missouri School of Journalism helps me coach reporters and develop talented journalists. Kris has lived and worked as a journalist in the Midwest since 2012.
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This isn't the first time Missouri has banned abortions. Residents may have heard ghoulish tales of “Doc Annie” Smith, a physician who looms large in Missouri’s mythology for performing illegal abortions in the early 1900s. Today, the truth about her work has largely disappeared. -
A community group in Seattle is transforming a 7-acre plot of land into a forest of fruit trees where neighbors will be encouraged to forage and meet each other. -
Harvest Public Media's Kristofor Husted explains why the genetics of cattle matter so much for the beef industry — and for consumers.
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Beef cattle ranchers have always known that making the best steak starts long before consumers pick out the right cut, or where an animal grazes or what… -
Farmers depend on productive, sustainable land, clean water and air and healthy animals to make a living. To help create those conditions and protect… -
Peyton Manning, the NFL quarterback-turned-pitchman, apparently has another side hustle: Certifying shipments of grain as organic for a Nebraska-based… -
In the hopes of not repeating a problematic year for soybean crops, farmers across the U.S. are deciding how best to protect their crops and their… -
Mushrooms that don't brown? Pigs resistant to diseases? Though the process does not introduce foreign genetic material into food or livestock, getting consumers to buy in will be an uphill battle.
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There’s a genetic technology that scientists are eager to apply to food, touting its possibilities for things like mushrooms that don’t brown and pigs… -
Hundreds of Midwest farmers are complaining of damage to their crops allegedly caused by the herbicide dicamba. The total number of damaged acres may...
