Tommy Felts, News Director
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Tommy is the news director for Startland News, a Kansas City-based nonprofit newsroom that uses storytelling to elevate the region’s startup community of entrepreneurs, innovators, hustlers, creatives and risk-takers.
Under Tommy’s leadership, Startland News has expanded its coverage from a primarily high-tech, high-growth focus to a more wide-ranging and inclusive look at the faces of entrepreneurism, innovation and business.
Austin Barnes, Programming Director and Senior Reporter
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An experienced multimedia journalist, Austin taps into his reporting and production experience at the local, regional and national levels of broadcast news to cover KC’s emerging startup, entrepreneur and innovation scene.
As the programming director for Startland News, Austin also plays a lead role in logistical planning for Startland News events, as well as experiences produced for STARTLAND, the parent organization of Startland News.
A connoisseur of coffee, reality television, good music, and (grain-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free) cookies, Austin committed to a life of storytelling in the 7th grade.
Elyssa Bezner, Reporter
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