Nick Loomis
Investigative Reporter, The Midwest NewsroomContact: nloomis@nebraskapublicmedia.org
Job Title: Investigative Reporter
Topic Expertise: Nick describes himself as generalist. He has considerable experience covering health and healthcare, human rights, religion, agriculture, and, of course, West/Central African culture and politics.
Geographic Expertise: He has worked mostly in rural communities, in his native Iowa and across a culturally and ethnically diverse swath of West and Central Africa.
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Education: CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Master of Arts in International Reporting; University of Iowa, Bachelor of Arts in Journalism
Languages: English and French
About Nick
Nick Loomis is a recently-returned Midwesterner who spent the past 14 years living and working abroad, where he often reported on sensitive issues in places that are skeptical of outsiders and, especially, journalists.
As a result, Nick developed an ability to breach cultural, economic, and racial barriers to establish trust with those whose stories he sought to tell. But that was just the first step.
The second, and most important, step was fulfilling that agreement by being an honest and responsible steward of each of those stories with the intention of improving the conditions of their owners.
He looks forward to bringing these and countless other lessons to his new role for his home region and its people.
Nick's favorite Iowa destination is Effigy Mounds.
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Republican lawmakers from Iowa and Nebraska gave up millions of dollars they requested for projects in their districts when they voted on a bill to keep the government open in March. Constituents and beneficiaries of Community Project Funding worry the money won’t be restored. -
Federal agencies have mandated and facilitated testing for the H5N1 virus to try to protect birds, cows and humans; researchers in the Midwest hope those efforts continue under the new presidential administration.
