THE POLITICS OF POLITICS

Marshall Zelinger is an investigative political reporter for 9NEWS and Next with Kyle Clark. What is an investigative political reporter? He got to make up his own title. It means he asks the tough questions you're probably thinking about at home, while making politics easy to understand. If it's something that can be demonstrated, he'll do it. If it's something complicated, he'll figure out a way to make you understand as though you're in a grade school classroom.

An Aurora native, Marshall went to Smoky Hill High School and University of Colorado - Boulder. He has worked at 9NEWS since January 2017. Before that, he spent seven years at Denver7. He's also worked as a reporter in Colorado Springs and Chico, California.

 Marshall is not a humblebrag. If he was, he would tell you he was lucky to be part of a team honored with a George Foster Peabody Award for "Investigating The Fire," a 30-minute documentary into a deadly fire set by the Colorado State Forest Service in 2012. He would also tell you about his nine Emmy Awards, including six for his demonstrative live reporting. Or his three national Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence for his political investigative reporting and truth testing. He might even mention the two Colorado laws that changed because of his reporting.

 Since he's not a humblebrag, Marshall fills his time running long distances, eating copious amounts of cereal and entertaining his almost 15-year-old dachshund named Kosher.