Austin authorities respond to reported shooting at public library

Tony Plohetski is a nationally award-winning journalist whose reporting is featured across print, digital and television platforms. He has broken some of Texas’ most significant stories, and his investigative and accountability reporting has led to indictments and the passage of new state laws. He joined the Austin American-Statesman in 2000 and since 2013 has partnered with KVUE, where he is the station’s lead reporter. Plohetski was the lead reporter on the Statesman’s groundbreaking coverage of the 2022 Uvalde school shooting, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. The coverage also received the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation. Additionally, Plohetski has received more than two dozen national and state journalism awards for his work with the Statesman and KVUE, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award, four national Headliner Awards, the Hillman Award and the August 2022 Sidney Award. He was the inaugural 2021 recipient of the Dan Rather Medal for News & Guts for journalistic courage and was named Featured Reporter of the Year by the Texas Editors in 2021 and 2023 and was a key part of two teams that won Sigma Delta Chi Awards in 2019. Plohetski also received several regional Emmy awards and was named Best Television Reporter by the Texas Association of Broadcasters and Texas. Headliners Foundation in 2023.