Brian Nordli

Freelance Reporter

Chicago, Illinois

Freelance Journalist, traveler, storyteller

Brian Nordli

Freelance Reporter

Chicago, Illinois

Freelance Journalist, traveler, storyteller

Woman to government: My inability to remember qualifies me as disabled
Tina Kitchel at home with her son Christian, 3, on Thursday, June 20, 2013, in Pahrump. Kitchel went into cardiac arrest three years ago during the birth of her son Christian. Her heart stopped for 27 minutes and she was in a coma for 13 days. Today, her brain no longer has the function to store short term memory.
Las Vegas Sun
After eight years, hope remains alive — even if a missing daughter isn’t
The search team huddled around the photograph of the homeless woman panhandling at Tropicana Avenue and Jones Boulevard. They studied the woman’s leathery skin and straight blond hair. Her narrow-set eyes hugged the bridge of a small, sloping nose hung above a pair of thin lips. They glanced back at the pictures of a grinning 21-year-old Jessie Foster just before she went missing eight years ago in Las Vegas, then gasped.
Las Vegas Sun
Inseparable: A story of friendship, grace and inevitable loss
The boys don’t say much as they burn through another Friday night playing video games. They’re both 18, settling in for a long evening of playing a medieval fantasy video game replete with evil skeleton warriors, magic spells and heroic missions. Darius Martin sits on a black stool; his buddy, Colton Shrum, sits immobilized in a wheelchair, his paralyzed arms propped up by a dresser drawer.
Las Vegas Sun
After ER visit fails to save digit, patient gives big thumbs-down to hospital bill
Bo Hash arrived at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals — Rose de Lima Campus with two Bounty paper towels wrapped around his bloodied right hand and his thumb in a red Dixie cup. Not more than an hour earlier, the thumb had been caught in a rodeo rope, popping it off his hand. Even through the pain, his instincts from his job as a Progressive insurance agent kicked in.
Las Vegas Sun
Meet the 16-year-old who was the life of the party at Rehab
As soon as Tanner Seebaum stepped behind the DJ table at Rehab Pool Saturday afternoon, nothing else mattered. He ditched his wheelchair and worked the equipment. The 16-year-old’s head bobbed to the thumping dubstep bass while his hands twisted knobs and adjusted sliders on the controller board.
Las Vegas Weekly
Las Vegas author laments that no one’s listening to his Kennedy assassination theory
Bob Ries sat in the back corner of the church parking lot reading a newspaper during the church’s yard sale. The discarded sections form a pile on the ground, blown off his card table and trapped between his feet and table legs. Four copies of his book, “Who Really Killed Kennedy? The Conspiracy,” remain untouched in front of a hand-drawn map of President John F.
Las Vegas Sun
Kindergarten today: It’s no longer as easy as ABC
The kindergartners walk into Raeleen Martinez’s classroom and begin digging through their superhero and princess backpacks for their reading booklets. Martinez’s sing-song voice and perpetual smile welcome them to her class at Martinez Elementary School and get them started on their first activity, reading the booklet, “I Like Salad.”.
Las Vegas Sun

Brian Nordli is a freelance journalist based in the Chicago-area. He has worked for the Las Vegas Sun, Reno Gazette-Journal and Columbia Missourian. His work has also been published in Bloomberg News and The Oregonian.

Brian has experience covering breaking news, community news, education, high school athletics and ferreting out unique general interest stories. His story in the Columbia Missourian about the people involved in elk relocation from Kentucky to Missouri was a National Finalist for Enterprise Reporting for the Hearst Journalism Awards Program. He has also published stories ranging from a woman's battle with the government for disability insurance to the psychological toll of losing a daughter to sex trafficking to the purity of a childhood friendship and the support it can provide in sickness and in health.

Outside of journalism, Brian taught English to elementary school children in South Korea and lived abroad for over a year-and-a-half. In that time, he traveled to 12 countries in Asia and Europe, worked on a Hungarian farm and met people from around the globe.

Brian was born in the Chicago-area and resides there now.

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