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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Labor lawyer and civic booster Bill Earley takes over leading the local American Red Cross from former San Diego Councilman Tony Young, who stepped down in March after a little more than a year in the position. -
Blair Underwood And Richard Thomas Take Lead Roles -
A new app that provides real-time traffic information for commuters on Interstate 15 was released Friday by San Diego's regional planning agency. -
Therese Riedel was a promising college athlete, but was paralyzed in an accident six years ago. Now she's learning martial arts from her wheelchair — which also gives her a unique perspective on San Diego. -
Dingeman Elementary School in Scripps Ranch uses Earth Day to get out an environmentally friendly message. -
San Diego Opera Artistic Director At March 24 Rehearsal
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KPBS Midday EditionThe average cost of assisted living in California is $5,000 a month. Since this is out of reach for many retirees, they are choosing other options across the border. -
The plant’s majority owner, Southern California Edison, does not believe it should have to worry about rising sea levels beyond a couple of decades from now, even though millions of pounds of waste might still be stored at the site. -
KPBS Midday EditionDocuments reveal Edison representatives met with Coastal Commission staff at least three times and traded scores of emails more than a year ahead of a public vote on where to store radioactive waste from the shuttered nuclear plant.
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