The Newton Daily News welcomes the newest member of its team as Jason W. Brooks joins the paper this week as a staff reporter.
A native of the Washington, D.C., area, Brooks’ beginning in newspapers started in middle school. He lived and worked in southern California for many years before relocating to New Mexico in 2001. There, he completed his journalism degree at the University of New Mexico, working for the Albuquerque Journal and other New Mexico papers before deciding to relocate to Nebraska in 2013.
Brooks’ most recent position was as sports editor of the Washington County Enterprise and Pilot-Tribune, covering three Nebraska high schools near Omaha.
Most of Brooks’ experience has been with high school and youth sports, but he has reported on many K-12 education issues, which will make for an easy transition to the education beat at the Daily News.
Brooks has won National Newspaper Association awards for both photography and writing.