Chris Haxel

Correspondent

Chris Haxel joined APM Reports as a correspondent in October 2023. He’s an investigative reporter with experience covering the military, gun culture, government, courts and technology. He most recently worked as lead producer on NPR's investigative podcast Taking Cover. Haxel also co-reported and co-hosted NPR's No Compromise podcast, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. Previously he was a reporter at member station KCUR in Kansas City. Haxel has also worked for the Scripps Washington Bureau, and newspapers in Kansas and Michigan. Before becoming a journalist, Haxel served in the Army, where he studied Russian and got paid to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. He lives in Minneapolis.

Stories

April 22, 2024

How NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut used his office in the culture war

Frank Edelblut pledged to stay “nonpartisan.” But as head of New Hampshire’s education department, he’s used his platform to pursue conservative grievances against the education system and individual educators.

February 14, 2024

Ghost guns ‘not a big issue’? Las Vegas police records say otherwise

During his campaign for governor, then-Sheriff Joe Lombardo claimed the Las Vegas police department he led seized just six ghost guns in one year. But officers actually seized 252 of the weapons during that time.