Katie Nieland, managing editor for The Daily Nebraskan

Katie Steiner is the type of person who will walk right up to the governor of the state and tap him on the shoulder. She's polite about it, but won't take no for an answer. She's what every college journalist should be -- tireless, precise and hungry for more stories.

We pick on her a lot – she's only 5'2" or so. Our opinion editor often picks her up, places her in one of our rolling recycle bins and rolls her about the newsroom. Friday afternoon, when everyone else in the office is chilling out and getting ready for the weekend, Katie arrives at the paper in a nice outfit and heels. When everyone else is hanging out, she's getting ready to sit through hours of important university regents meetings. But she doesn't complain – she understands its part of the job.

Brian Anthony Hernandez, editor-in-chief for The Daily Nebraskan

In December, Steiner covered the aftermath of the Omaha shooting at which a 19-year-old committed the worst single-day killing spree in Nebraska history. Katie Steiner was the first one in the Daily Nebraskan newsroom working on the story when it first broke. That evening, she led one of two reporting squads (each had three journalists from the Daily Nebraskan) to Omaha. One team went to Westroads Mall, where the shooting happened, and Steiner's team drove to Bellevue to report in the shooter's neighborhood. After a day of reporting, her team was one of the last media outlets to leave the house around midnight. Her efforts contributed to the staff report gathered by her and many other Daily Nebraskan reporters.

The next day, she attended the press conference at the Nebraska State Capitol where officials discussed how the shooter had once been a ward of the state. Steiner was the sole writer of the follow-up story. She used information from the press conference, information from the previous evening in Bellevue and what others had gotten from other news conferences to compile a well-reported piece. Without Steiner, the process of reporting on this tragic event wouldn't have run as smoothly.

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The Nebraska Legislature may be asked to review a bill that would prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition at the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska State College System.

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A few minutes. That's how long it took Robert Hawkins, 19, to commit the worst single-day killing spree in Nebraska history.

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As a child, Clayton Anderson was just like any other kid. Growing up in the small Nebraska town of Ashland, Anderson loved sports, worked hard in school and was close to his family.

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The smell of warm, gooey homemade brownies will no longer permeate the University of Nebraska at Omaha's campus. Nor will its students and faculty members ever experience the sensation of messy puppy chow on their fingers again.