Katie Schoolov
Video JournalistKatie Schoolov served as a video journalist for KPBS. She shot and edited in-depth features for television, radio, and the web, and reported on stories when time allowed. She is a San Diego native and returned to cover her hometown after working as a video journalist for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Las Vegas Sun. Katie serves on the national board of directors for the National Press Photographers Association. She previously worked as a print and video journalist for a daily newspaper in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she covered ongoing election violence in Zimbabwe and the resulting emigration. She also interned for the Associated Press, producing internationally circulated videos and writing articles from the White House press room. Katie has won first place awards from the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the San Diego Press Club. She was also a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Friends and family members paid tribute to Jacobs at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.
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Three San Diego Unified high schools have advanced to the national Aspen Challenge finals next month with their solutions to community problems.
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Most nursing home residents were shut off from the outside world during the pandemic, and some died without family by their side. A new bill in the California Legislature aims to prevent that from happening again.
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At the European Hospital in Rafah, there are shortages of pain medication, antibiotics, even bandages, American volunteers say they are unable to save lives — and unable to evacuate to safety.
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French Gates says she is "immensely proud" of the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the decision to step down as co-chair was not easy. Her last day is June 7.
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President Biden dramatically expanded two national monuments in California. But there are growing concerns that federal land managers are struggling to manage existing monuments designated since 2016.
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President Trump is urging a “migrant caravan” to apply for asylum in Mexico rather than in the U.S., as homicides there reach an all-time high. KPBS looks at the asylum-seekers already stuck in Tijuana, waiting for their turn to enter the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
- UCSD protests continue with walkout, call for UC system to divest from Israel
- Wonderfront Music and Arts Festival takes over San Diego this weekend
- Former Padres player and top pick Sean Burroughs dies at 43
- Cut flowers rescued from landfills, given to people in the community
- A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction