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
- Perlman proposes UNL cuts
- Speaker: U.S., Mexico "co-dependent"
- State acts on college savings plans
- Heineman discounts need for budget-cutting session
- Johanns warns on health care plan
- Nelson impressed by meeting with Sotomayor
- Tax receipts exceed projections for first time in three months
- Racing to continue in Lincoln
- Milliken unveils NU budget proposal
- Nebraska term limits
- 2009 legislative session ends
- Legislature overrides Heineman veto
- Lethal injection executions authorized
- Tax breaks for wind energy, not health clinics
- Lethal injection bill moves within one vote of final passage
- Stimulus money going to Harlan County Lake
- Court okays "ruse" drug checkpoints
- Ultrasound bill changes rejected
- Nebraska legislature rejects repealing death penalty, advances lethal injection bill
- Lawmakers debate death penalty
- Court: release names of Hastings Regional Center burials
- Legislature advances abortion ultrasound bill
- Legislature keeps campaign limits
- Gang violence bill moved one step from final passage
- Tourism has big impact on small counties