Mike Hixenbaugh

Senior Investigative Reporter

I'm a senior reporter on the NBC News Enterprise team, covering a wide range of subjects. My work, at its best, uncovers wrongdoing or injustice, but I’m also interested in pursuing intimate, deeply reported stories about people and communities that help readers better understand their neighbors, themselves and the country they live in.

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I'm a senior reporter on the NBC News Enterprise team, covering a wide range of subjects. My work, at its best, uncovers wrongdoing or injustice, but I’m also interested in pursuing intimate, deeply reported stories about people and communities that help readers better understand their neighbors, themselves and the country they live in.

Do you have a news tip you want to share with our journalists? Visit NBC News Tips to learn more.


Latest from Mike Hixenbaugh

Judge rebukes the Assemblies of God for failing to turn over records in sex abuse case

A Texas judge is cracking down on the Assemblies of God for repeatedly failing to turn over documents as part of a lawsuit accusing the Pentecostal denomination of mishandling sex abuse allegations.

Former youth pastor arrested after allegedly sexually abusing at least 6 teens

Thomas Pinkerton, a former youth minister known as Pastor Tommy, is accused of sexually abusing at least six boys from 2006 to 2010 while working at Central Christian Church, an Assemblies of God church in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Assemblies of God leaders address sex abuse scandal that roiled Chi Alpha campus ministry

After a convicted sex offender abused students through Chi Alpha, an Assemblies of God program, officials announced policy changes. Some say it's not enough.

How a Christian college ministry glorified a sex offender and enabled him to keep abusing students

Daniel Savala urged generations of Chi Alpha students to get naked in his Houston sauna. Now some say the Assemblies of God campus ministry didn’t do enough to stop him from abusing children.

The 40-year mission to stop a Pentecostal preacher accused of raping children

Joe Campbell says his calling is to share God’s love, but a group of women say he sexually abused them as girls. An NBC News investigation uncovered decades of missed warnings and failures to act.
166d ago

Salvation Army dismissed warnings, allowing a music director to abuse a girl for years, lawsuit says

Joel Collier was fired from the Salvation Army a decade ago after sending graphic sexual messages to a child — only to be rehired the next year and accused of sexually abusing a teenager, according to a lawsuit.
179d ago

How Oklahoma's AG used a frontier-era law to charge Robert Morris in sex abuse scandal

Megachurch founder Robert Morris was indicted by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond after Cindy Clemishire publicly accused Morris of molesting her in the 1980s
179d ago

Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of lewd acts with a child

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned as senior pastor last year after he admitted "inappropriate sexual behavior" in the 1980s has been indicted on five criminal counts involving a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.

Texas probes medical school's use of bodies without consent following NBC News investigation

The University of North Texas Health Science Center's failure to obtain permission before using corpses for research may have violated state law, authorities said.

Texas lawmaker moves to outlaw medical research on corpses without consent after NBC News investigation

A Texas lawmaker horrified by an NBC News investigation into a medical school that profited from the bodies of the poor moved this week to ban the practice.
218d ago

What we know after American Eagle plane and Black Hawk helicopter collide near Washington, D.C.

An American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. All 67 people aboard the aircraft are presumed dead.