
Kristofor Husted
Senior Content Editor, Midwest NewsroomAs the Midwest Newsroom’s senior content editor, I strive to amplify voices from the region our audiences don’t often hear from. I work with our reporters to seek out stories and experiences that help broaden perspectives and hold people accountable. I also seek to share our team’s reporting in all kinds of mediums to meet our audiences where they are.
At the end of the day, I want 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.
I’ve spent time reporting for NPR’s science desk, Harvest Public Media and KBIA in Columbia, Missouri. My teaching background at the Missouri School of Journalism helps me coach reporters and develop talented journalists.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Farmers depend on productive, sustainable land, clean water and air and healthy animals to make a living. To help create those conditions and protect…
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Peyton Manning, the NFL quarterback-turned-pitchman, apparently has another side hustle: Certifying shipments of grain as organic for a Nebraska-based…
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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…
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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…
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The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced a temporary ban on the sale of agricultural products containing the pesticide dicamba on Friday,...