Jason Kuiper, Author at The Wire

About Jason Kuiper

Jason Kuiper joined OPPD as a communications specialist in 2015. He is a former staff writer and reporter at the Omaha World-Herald, where he covered a wide range of topics but spent the majority of his career covering crime. He worked most recently as a contributor to Omaha Magazine, among other publications. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and an avid fiction reader, especially short stories and crime fiction. In his free time he enjoys cooking and spending time with his wife and three children.

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