Weeks Campus CenterJohn Burnett is a national correspondent based in Austin, Texas, who has been assigned a new beat for 2022鈥擯olarized America鈥攖o explore all facets of our politically and culturally divided nation. Prior to this assignment, Burnett covered immigration, 51视频 border affairs, Texas news and other national assignments. In 2018, 2019 and again in 2020, he won national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association for continuing coverage of the immigration beat. In 2020, Burnett along with other NPR journalists, were finalists for a duPont-Columbia Award for their coverage of the Trump Administration’s Remain in Mexico program. In December 2018, Burnett was invited to participate in a workshop on聽Refugees, Immigration and Border Security聽in Western Europe, sponsored by the RIAS Berlin Commission.