'Bismarck Tribune' Business Reporter Dies of Unknown Illness at 29

By: Crystal Reid Austin, a business reporter for The Bismarck Tribune and former Associated Press reporter, has died of an unknown illness. She was 29.

Reid Austin was hospitalized in Bismarck on Thursday and died the next day.

She was a 2006 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and editor of UNO's student newspaper, The Gateway. She also worked as a reporter for The Associated Press in Omaha in 2005 and 2006.

At the time of her death, Reid Austin was a business reporter for The Bismarck Tribune and managing editor of Business Watch magazine.

Reid Austin is survived by her husband, Rod Austin, whom she married on July 11. Other survivors include her parents, Frank and Brenda Reid of Plattsmouth, Neb., two stepchildren, a sister and a grandmother.