Matt Olberding
News director
Matt Olberding joined Nebraska Public Media as news director in 2025 after nearly 30 years in the newspaper industry. Prior to joining the team, Matt spent 20 years as a reporter and editor at the Lincoln Journal Star and also has worked at the Columbus Telegram and Tampa Bay Times. He is a Lincoln native and graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Recent News Stories
- Officials provide more details on Omaha ICE raid
- Omaha, Lincoln areas get $13.5 million in housing grants
- Lincoln to play host to top professional women's bowling event
- 2 Nebraskans sickened as part of salmonella outbreak linked to eggs
- Western Nebraska sees heavy rain, while air quality alert issued in east
- Canadian wildfires could affect air quality in Nebraska
- Former UNO chancellor John Christensen dies
- Nebraska to play Oklahoma, Creighton gets Kansas in NCAA baseball tournament
- Nebraska to get federal aid for damage caused by March blizzard
- Pillen vetoes in limbo after being submitted to the wrong office
- Nebraska ends burn bans after recent rains
- Airline closing Lincoln maintenance facility, 100 to lose jobs
- 4 dead in central Nebraska murder-suicide
- Pilot took friends on quick flight to see river before fatal crash
- Nebraska farm income forecast to hit record this year
- Nebraska schools to lose millions in mental health grants
- Pillen extends burn ban for most of Nebraska
- 2 UNL international students have revoked visas restored
- Nebraska officials react to death of Pope Francis
- 3 dead in small plane crash on Platte River near Fremont
- Nebraska governor seeking major disaster declaration for March blizzard