KXAN Investigates is a nationally-recognized, award-winning team of journalists – the largest investigative unit in Central Texas. The team has been honored with the Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, six National Edward R. Murrow Awards, six National Headliner Awards and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. We tackle stories that hold your leaders accountable and make your communities safer. Scroll down to learn more about each team member and some of our latest results.
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Josh Hinkle
Director of Investigations & Innovation
Josh Hinkle is KXAN’s Director of Investigations & Innovation, leading the station’s duPont and IREAward-winning investigative team on multiple platforms. He also leads KXAN’s political coverage as theexecutive producer and host of “State of Texas,” a weekly program focused on the Texas Legislature andelections, seen in 14 markets statewide. His work on the show has been honored three times with thenational Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.
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Kelly Wiley
Investigative Reporter
Kelly Wiley is KXAN’s newest investigative reporter. Kelly joined the team in July 2021 after two yearsas an investigative reporter in Jacksonville, Florida. In Florida, her investigation into a localdiocese decision to bring on a priest previously accused in a Pennsylvania grand jury report of failingto report sexual abuse in the church earned her an Emmy award.
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Matt Grant
Investigative Reporter
Investigative reporter Matt Grant joined KXAN in June 2021. Matt has been described as a “champion fortaxpayers” and a reporter who “made a real impact on our country.” His aggressive and dogged reportinghas earned him five Emmy’s and an Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2020, Matt was recognized by the RadioTelevision Digital News Association of the Carolinas with second place for “TV Investigative Reporter ofthe Year.”
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Arezow Doost
Investigative Reporter
Arezow Doost is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who joined KXAN in August of 2016 as an investigativereporter. This isn’t Arezow’s first stint in Austin. She attended the University of Texas and alsoworked in the city professionally nearly a decade ago. This time, she returns with her family includingher husband and three kids Zade, Kai and Zara. Before arriving in Austin, Arezow spent seven yearsworking in Dallas-Fort Worth reporting and anchoring. During her time she led investigations into ruralcounty cover-ups, political misconduct, and consumer complaints.
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Avery Travis
Investigative Reporter
Avery is an investigative reporter, covering the courts and justice system. This proud Longhorn isthrilled to be back in Austin, returning to the KXAN newsroom where it all began. While at theUniversity of Texas, Avery interned with the Investigative Team at KXAN. She then worked as a multimediajournalist at KAMC in Lubbock, TX, before working her way up to morning and midday anchor on GoodMorning Lubbock.
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Mike Rush
Investigative Reporter
Mike Rush is an Emmy-winning native Texan proud to be working as an anchor and investigative reporter for KXAN. Over more than 20 years, Mike’s career has led him to Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri and finally back home to Texas.
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David Barer
Senior Investigative Producer/Digital Reporter
David was born and raised in Houston. He received a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University and amaster’s of journalism degree from The University of Texas at Austin. David has reported for ReportingTexas, KUT News, Austin American-Statesman, Associated Press, Texas Climate News and Community ImpactNewspaper. His work has been syndicated by many more publications. While studying at UT, David wasselected from students throughout the country to help cover President Obama’s inauguration as a digitalreporter for PBS NewsHour.
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Dalton Huey
Investigative Producer/Digital Reporter
Dalton is a native Texan who moved to Austin in 2010. He proudly received his bachelor’s degree fromAuburn University and a master’s degree in forensic psychology from The Chicago School of ProfessionalPsychology where he specialized in the psychology of law enforcement and terrorism. Dalton began hisinvestigative career working for a multi-disciplinary forensic investigations firm where he assisted inthe crime scene reconstruction of the Fort Hood mass shooting.
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Chris Nelson
Investigative Photojournalist
Chris Nelson is a twenty-year veteran at KXAN. His investigative work includes the team’s largestCatalyst project to-date – “Locked in Limbo” – which highlights mental competency challenges in Texasjails and “Mother’s Erased” – an investigation into maternal mortality rates in Texas. Chris has beenhonored with eight Emmys, three Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Awards and an Edward R. Murrowaward.
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Richie Bowes
Investigative Photojournalist
Richie Bowes is the Emmy-winning photojournalist behind recent KXAN projects like “Plan C Pills” and the “Risky Rides” update. He began working at KXAN after getting his start at KCEN in Waco, where he earned his first Emmy for a documentary on the deadly 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in nearby West.
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Lone Star Emmy
- 2023 - TxTag Troubles
- 2023 - Still Practicing
- 2023 - Trapped by Tickets
- 2023 - Case Dismissed
- 2023 - Held Up
- 2023 - Missing in Texas
- 2023 - Water Worry
- 2023 - The Exit
- 2022 - Justice for Some
- 2022 - Risky Rides
- 2022 - Still Practicing
- 2021 - Racial Profiling: A Failure to Report
- 2021 - Westlake Racism
Walter Cronkite Award
- 2019 - Oil Empire
- 2017 - Border Splurge
Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award
- 2018 - Fallen
duPont Award
- 2017 - Racial Profiling Whitewash
IRE Award
- 2016 - Racial Profiling Whitewash
National Edward R. Murrow Award
- 2023 - Medical Debt Lawsuits
- 2022 - KXAN Investigates
- 2022 - Mental Competency Consequences
- 2022 - Catalyst Season 4 Update
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award
- 2024 - TxTag Troubles
- 2024 - OutLaw
- 2023 - KXAN Investigates
- 2023 - Medical Debt Lawsuits
- 2022 - KXAN Investigates
- 2022 - Mental Hospital Backlog
- 2022 - Mental Competency Consequences
- 2022 - Catalyst Season 4 Update
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