Austin Keating

About

Austin Keating is an Illinois trade journalist specializing in sheet metal fabrication, ventilation, and mechanical contracting, having previously covered agriculture and remote sensing as a correspondent for Planet Forward (2017-18), field editor for Informa magazine Prairie Farmer (2018-21), then editor of BNP Media's Point of Beginning (2021 until it was discontinued in 2022). In a prior life, as a student journalist for the Daily Illini in Champaign-Urbana, he covered labor issues as well as the university's facilities and services department. He currently serves at BNP as editor of SNIPS NEWS, the 80-year-old sheet metal industry special section of biweekly newspaper ACHR NEWS, and edits for Engineered Systems and Today's Boiler. He assists the company's RemTEC and Emerging Contaminants trade show as well. Independent of BNP, Austin owns a restaurant in Mattoon, Illinois, called the Alamo Steakhouse and Saloon. The first link under featured shows most of his video work to date. Everything else is on muckrack.com/trinebula. There's a few clips for each position under the desktop version of this LinkedIn page.