Rob Runyan is a multimedia journalist covering politics and public policy. He is currently the youth and politics reporter for the Medill News Service.

He has covered legal issues, the environment  and elections in Medill's bureaus in Chicago and Washington, D.C. Rob also covered environmetal issues in the 2008 election as one of Medill's 10 Carnegie/Knight News21 Fellows.
He hails from Detroit, Mich., but now lives outside of Washington, D.C.