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
- Fairmont woman talks health care with Obama
- Two named to leadership in HHS
- Swine flu cases high among minority groups
- Nelson noncommital on health legislation
- Johanns calls for more than rhetoric in climate change legislation
- Group questions North Platte drug testing
- Help for high electric bills available
- Johanns cautions on health care
- Flu cases jump in Nebraska
- Nebraska enters new fiscal year with cushion
- Nebraska towns: big get bigger, small get smaller
- Group urges easing Nebraska's fireworks law
- Johanns' impression of Sotomayor
- Report stresses health care needs
- State seeks more road money; acknowledges local delays
- Nebraska hospitals: recession hurts them, too
- Demonstrators in Lincoln urge democracy in Iran
- Nebraska Supreme Court denies Poindexter new trial
- Johanns opposes ethanol land use calculation
- Perlman proposes UNL cuts
- Speaker: U.S., Mexico "co-dependent"
- State acts on college savings plans
- Johanns warns on health care plan
- Heineman discounts need for budget-cutting session
- Nelson impressed by meeting with Sotomayor