Daniel Caudill

Reporter

United States

Daniel Caudill is a general assignment reporter for KMUW 89.1 FM, a public radio station in Wichita, Kansas.

Caudill has over six years of newsroom experience, first working as a reporter and editor for The Sunflower, Wichita State's student-run newspaper. He also worked as an intern, a reporter, and later the digital content manager for The Derby Informer, a weekly newspaper in Derby, Kansas.

In spring 2020, Caudill worked in Topeka as the statehouse intern for the Kansas News Service, a collaborative news wire between four public radio stations in Kansas, including KMUW.

Caudill's work has been picked up by The Associated Press and has appeared in the U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Times, The Wichita Eagle, The Emporia Gazette, The Shawnee Mission Post and more newspapers across Kansas.

Portfolio

KMUW

KMUW
02/10/2023
Meet Bill Gardner, Wichita's 'wizard' of logos and branding

Long before Bill Gardner and Gardner Design helped create logos for Fortune 500 companies, his family was already well-versed in branding. At the family ranch in Liberal, Gardner's grandpa would use a literal brand to mark the cattle. "It's a diamond shape with a bar on the bottom of it.

KMUW
09/02/2022
Organized labor is having a moment. These Spirit contract workers hope to seize it

With union drives at Starbucks and other major corporations commanding headlines, recent polling shows Americans are more supportive of unions than they have been in decades - despite the fact that only 6% of private-sector workers are in a union. And a recent report by Bloomberg Law indicates unions have won more elections in 2022 than in nearly 20 years.

KMUW
04/29/2022
Esports pipeline taking shape in Wichita

It's game night at Wichita State University, and members of the varsity esports team are practicing just before their match. Inside the esports lab, there's a lot of what you might expect from athletes in a traditional locker room: jokes, banter, discussions about the match ahead.

Kansas News Service

Kansas News Service
05/03/2020
Protecting Voters From COVID-19 Will Cost Kansas Counties Extra

Polling places in Kansas are required by law to be open, but this year's primary and general elections might see fewer in-person votes and more by mail. The latter is a safe and convenient option in the time of coronavirus, but comes with its own costs and challenges.

Kansas News Service
03/03/2020
Kansas Moves To Get Suspended Drivers Back On The Road, But Some Say It's Not Enough

TOPEKA, Kansas - Kansas has one of the highest rates of suspended drivers in the country, and the majority of those more than 215,000 licenses are suspended for unpaid fines or court fees - sometimes unrelated to driving. Both the Kansas House and Senate approved separate bills last month aimed at getting drivers back on the road.

Kansas News Service
02/11/2020
Kansas Could Be The Next State To Make More Evidence Public In Fatal Police Shootings

TOPEKA, Kansas - Wendy Couser, a former juvenile intake officer at the Newton Police Department, has always believed in the importance of consequences. But Couser feels that she's yet to see consequences for the law enforcement officials who beat, shot and killed her son, William "Matthew" Holmes, during an arrest in August 2017.