Austin Campbell Joins The Intercept as National Security Fellow

The Intercept is pleased to announce the appointment of reporter Austin Campbell to a National Security Fellowship. Over the course of this yearlong fellowship, Campbell will join The Intercept’s newsroom to report on the military, national security, and how the U.S. war machine affects the lives of civilians and service members at home and abroad. 

“Voters made it clear: They stand opposed to the Trump administration’s senseless wars. As Austin joins our team, he’ll hold the Pentagon accountable to the public and to the service members it so often fails,” said editor-in-chief Ben Muessig. “Austin’s award-winning reporting has already forced the military to answer for deaths it tried to hide, and this fellowship gives him the time and resources to go further.”

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Campbell is an investigative reporter who has published dozens of stories with The Intercept, including a major investigation exposing a suicide crisis in the Air Force and a groundbreaking two-part series that revealed that women in the Army are more likely to be killed by fellow soldiers than enemy combatants, and that Pentagon records missed nearly half of troops’ domestic abuse killings. Campbell was more recently a contributing reporter for Task & Purpose, where he covered Army testing of autonomous robots, Pete Hegseth’s plan to restore a Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery, and an alleged military health insurance fraud scheme that allowed a clinician to buy a gold-plated Cybertruck.

In October, Campbell received the James Crawley Award for excellence in written journalism from Military Reporters and Editors for his investigation into the Air Force suicide crisis, as well as an investigative reporting award, alongside Daniel Johnson, for their coverage of homicides of women in the military. 

Campbell holds a master’s degree in strategic communication from the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media and served in the U.S. Air Force as an aircraft armament specialist. In addition to The Intercept and Task & Purpose, his work has appeared in the Washington Post and Military.com.