Austin Barnes
Executive Editor, Startland News

Austin oversees business operations for the publication and leads its strategic development and news engagement efforts.

An award winning multimedia journalist, Austin taps into more than 10 years of reporting and production experience at the local, regional and national levels of broadcast news to lead the Startland News team and its business and strategic development.

Under Austin’s leadership, the publication has engaged more than 15,000 readers through its series of news engagement and entrepreneurship community building events and successfully started scaling its high-quality entrepreneurship reporting beyond the Kansas City metropolitan area.