Fred Knapp
Senior Reporter/Producer
Fred Knapp has reported on Nebraska for more than 30 years, covering the Legislature, state government and a wide range of stories across the state – first as a newspaper reporter for The Lincoln Journal Star and, since 2001, in public broadcasting for what’s now Nebraska Public Media. A native of New Jersey (Exit 143A), Fred is a graduate of Yale, Columbia and several STOP classes. In his spare time, he enjoys taking road trips and lots of pictures.
Recent News Stories
- Nebraska state senators elect speaker and committee chairs on first day of 2025 session
- Projected shortfall limits expectations for legislative session
- Nebraska's minimum wage set to increase with new year
- Pillen discusses proposal to ban sale of lab-grown meat
- Talk of deportations stirs worry, uncertainty in Nebraska
- Nebraska Attorney General sues truck manufacturers on anti-trust grounds
- Bacon declared winner over Vargas
- Pillen announces Jeffrey Funke as next chief justice
- Indian Affairs head hails Biden's apology for boarding schools
- Walz campaigns in Papillion for Nebraska Electoral College vote
- Fact check: A look into statements made by congressional candidates Bacon and Vargas during debate
- Nebraska moving ahead with Perkins County Canal plans despite Colorado’s concerns
- Colorado wary of Nebraska’s plans for Perkins County Canal
- Flood, Blood clash in 1st CD debate
- Pillen defends controversial Library Commission appointment
- Congressional delegation airs problems and prospects
- Senators end special session with passage of slimmed-down tax bill
- Senators advance property tax credits, consider bigger changes
- Lawmakers divided over doing a little or trying something more
- Legislature moves toward budget cuts
- Legislature advances vastly scaled-back property tax bill
- Legislature tees up key property tax vote for Tuesday
- Senators continue thrashing around on taxes
- Special session debate: Should there even be a special session?
- Legislature considers budget cuts in special session