Jeff Martin (American journalist)

Jeff Martin is a Midwest correspondent for USA Today and an editor with the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D.

He writes AbOUT politics (Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-14-50states_southdakota_N.htm ), tornado research (Source: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2009-05-18-tornadowatch_N.htm) and current events in the central USA (Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-14-mountainlions_N.htm )

In the summer of 2007, a mysterious development known only as the "Gorilla Project" was kept under considerable secrecy by the unknown company planning it. Martin uncovered two Internet domain names, hyperionelkpoint.com and hyperionsd.com. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Project ) The discovery led to a news story that identified for the first time the Texas company Hyperion and its plans for a major oil refinery near Elk Point, S.D. (Source: http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070527/NEWS/705270316 ) (Source: http://www.petroleumnews.com/pntruncate/161591867.shtml )

Prior to his time with the Argus Leader and USA TODAY, he was the education editor at the Tulsa World in Oklahoma; an assistant city editor at the Jackson Sun in Tennessee; a crime reporter at the Detroit Free Press; a police reporter at the Sioux City Journal in Iowa; and reporter and business editor at the Ames Daily Tribune Co. in Iowa. Jeff has a bachelor of arts degree in communication arts from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa; an AA degree in communication from Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa; and graduate-level journalism coursework at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.