Chris Hippensteel

Chris Hippensteel

Chris Hippensteel is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporting fellow for the Times Union in Albany, NY.

Previously, he's covered politics for the Tampa Bay Times, breaking news for CNN and The Daily Beast and enterprise reporting for an investigative nonprofit newsroom in Pittsburgh. His freelance bylines have appeared in outlets including VICE, Yahoo! News and the USA Today network.

In 2023, he graduated summa cum laude from Syracuse University, where he led the news section of the student newspaper, The Daily Orange.

You can contact him at chris.hippensteel@timesunion.com.

New from me:

Mangled cars, broken lives: The human toll of New York’s fatal pursuitsAs police chase more fleeing vehicles, a growing number of people are dying in the resulting crashes.

Selected Works

Pastor dissuaded women from ending what they said were abusive marriagesSeveral women said Rev. Thomas Trouwborst, pastor at Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dissuaded them from leaving marriages they said were abusive.

As border crossings spike, human smugglers thrive in northern N.Y.Migrants, mostly from Mexico, are increasingly entering the U.S. across New York’s border with Canada. Authorities suspect smugglers and organized crime are driving the shift.

In the North Country, human smuggling becomes a backdrop to everyday lifeResidents who live along the U.S.-Canada land border say the increase in migrant traffic has been unprecedented.

State Police concealed child sex abuse by trooper who molested more victimsState Police and Saratoga County prosecutors are accused of covering up a former trooper's sex abuse of boys. He went on to abuse more children for two decades.

The end of pandemic SNAP benefits has pushed Syracuse toward a hunger crisis

The Daily Orange, May 2023

A Military Tech Giant Is Using Prison Labor To Make Electronics

VICE, January 2021

Inside the push to open up Hart Island, NYC's COVID cemetery

Yahoo! News, May 2022

Kamala Harris highlights Biden’s Middle East trip, abortion rights battle during Florida visit

Tampa Bay Times, July 2022

Amid labor shortage, workers with criminal records face job barriers

PublicSource, October 2021

He Wants a New Generation of Dems in Congress—Starting With HimJoe Vogel is trying to become the second Gen Z member of Congress—and he thinks Democrats need a lot more young members like him.

The Daily Beast, July 2023

Protesters in Tampa call DeSantis’ removal of Hillsborough state attorney ‘authoritarian’

Tampa Bay Times, August 2022

Healthy Young People Pose as Delivery Drivers to Get Vaccine

The Daily Beast, April 2021

Karen refugees in Syracuse fight for justice, recognition

The Daily Orange, March 2021

Artifacts in the libraries are deteriorating. SU delayed a plan to save them.

The Daily Orange, March 2021

The PA justice system often fails autistic people. Can it be reformed?

PublicSource, August 2021

2 years into the pandemic, Syracuse houses of worship grapple with change

The Daily Orange, February 2022

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