 | Since January 2004, Austin Jenkins has been the Olympia–based Political Reporter for the Northwest News Network, a consortium of public radio stations throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In that position, Austin covers Northwest politics and public policy as well as the Washington legislature. He also regularly files stories for National Public Radio. Some of the more memorable subjects Austin's covered recently include: geoduck farming in Southern Puget Sound, the Court Martial of a Washington National Guard member accused of treason and Washington's contested governor's race.
Prior to joining the Northwest News Network, Austin was a freelance general assignment reporter at KING–TV, the NBC affiliate in Seattle. He also worked as a freelance education reporter for KPLU–FM. Austin spent 2001 in Washington, D.C. as a Knight Foundation/American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. Austin has also worked as a television reporter in Portland, Oregon and Boise, Idaho. Austin is a graduate of Garfield High School in Seattle and has a B.A. in Political Science from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. Over the years Austin has won numerous professional awards for his reporting. Off the clock, Austin is a competitive runner, an avid skier and mountain biker. |