Trent Seibert
From Sunshine Review
Trent Siebert is a journalist and open-government advocate in Houston, Texas, who is founder and editor of the nonprofit online newspaper Texas Watchdog.
[edit] Career background
While working as a political reporter for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville in 2005-2007, Seibert was part of the team that uncovered cronyism and corruption in the Tennessee Highway Patrol. He also reported on ethics in government and the influence of lobbyists on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill. In 2005, Trent was a co-winner of the newsroom’s Jimmy Davy Award, recognizing the news room’s “most valuable player.” The Nashville Scene named him the city’s “Best Capitol Hill Reporter” that same year.[1]
Seibert later worked as an on-air investigative reporter for WKRN-Channel 2 in Nashville, where he broke news about legislators’ conflicts of interest, Tennessee’s new ethics laws and cost overruns by the Tennessee Department of Transportation.[1]
Prior to his service in Nashville, Seibert also served a stint as city editor of The Tuscaloosa News in Alabama. There, he supervised the team that uncovered voter fraud in the Black Belt, the poorest counties in the state. In the wake of that investigation, the state attorney general began his own voter fraud probe.[1]
He also was an award-winning reporter for The Denver Post in Colorado, where he uncovered widespread problems in the Colorado Lottery. Trent also covered the War on Terror from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.[2]
[edit] Education
Seibert is a graduate of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.[1]
