KXAN Reporter Ryan Chandler to Join NBC News

KXAN reporter Ryan Chandler is joining NBC News as a Texas-based correspondent.

Chandler is the Austin Texas Capitol Correspondent for the Austin, Texas Nexstar owned NBC affiliate.

“Follow your dreams, kids: this week I am so grateful to join @nbcnews as a correspondent – based in Texas and reporting nationwide @todayshow @nbcnightlynews @nbcnewsnow @msnbc,” Chandler wrote on social media. “I’ll be gone for a bit training all around with new friends and mentors in Miami, NY, and LA, and then I’m excited to get up to Dallas and onto wherever the world takes us. See y’all soon!”

“I love the Texas Capitol community and I am not going anywhere,” Chandler told mikemcguff.com.  “The Texas story is a national story- economically, politically, culturally, demographically. Texas will lead and experience the political currents of this country more than most, and now my job is to tell that story for everyone. I’ll be in Austin probably more than some of the lawmakers would like.”

Chandler joined KXAN in December 2022 after working at KAMC and KLBK in Lubbock.