Martin joined KMBC-TV in January 1998 as a part-time reporter. In March of 1999 he was promoted to full-time reporter.

Martin was destined for broadcast journalism. He began his broadcast news career at KCII-AM Radio in Washington, Iowa, while still in high school. He got his start in television during college when he began working as a writer and teleprompter operater at WOI-TV in Ames, Iowa. Progressing quickly, he anchored a student-produced morning news show there before interning at KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as a reporter/photographer.

Martin began his professional career with an International Radio and Television Society Fellowship in New York City during the summer of 1990. The fellowship included a job as desk assistant at WNBC-TV in New York, where he fetched a lot of coffee, made a lot of copies, and learned a lot about broadcast news.

Returning from New York to central Iowa, Martin worked at KASI-AM Radio in Ames, Iowa, as a news reporter and anchor from September 1990 to February 1991. Also in September 1990, he started working as a part-time reporter/photographer at KCCI-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. He was promoted in 1994 to statehouse reporter.

In September of 1998 Martin was selected for a RIAS Fellowship, a German/American journalist exchange program. For two weeks, he observed Germany's national elections, interviewed officials of the European Union and NATO, met with former East German dissidents, and learned about cultural, ethnic, and political issues in Berlin.

Martin's accomplishments include two Iowa Associated Press Broadcasters awards for spot news coverage.

Martin grew up on a farm in southeast Iowa, near the town of Washington. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1990.

His wife Lisa is a producer at KMBC-TV. His mother and father live in Ames, Iowa, and his sister Amy is an actress in Seattle, Washington.

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