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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The county unveiled a new interactive online "Know Your Hazards" map that pinpoints disaster risks at your location. -
A MAD Magazine cartoonist compares the first Comic-Con in 1970 to today's crowded, pop culture extravaganza. -
The Grammy Award-winning band Switchfoot, which got their start in Encinitas, is in town for their annual charity surf and music festival, BRO-AM. -
Three lions, including a rare white lion, will make their home at the Lions, Tigers & Bears animal sanctuary in Alpine. -
The U.S. Forest Service estimates California has lost more than 100 million trees to drought, fire and invasive beetles. In our own backyard, large oaks that shaded generations of San Diegans at sixth-grade camp are now stumps, calling on today's campers to reverse the damage. -
While cities struggle to get approval for higher density and new affordable housing, older affordable housing is disappearing.
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San Diego police officers spent time with kids in City Heights this week as part of an effort to build relationships and trust in the wake of police and community tensions across the country. -
KPBS Midday EditionU.S. citizens living in Tijuana with their deported husbands say they are denied access to SENTRI, a trusted traveler program for expedited border crossings. -
The historic Truax House served as San Diego's first AIDS hospice. The City Council agreed to sell it to a private developer who has pledged to restore the house from its current disrepair and to build new housing on site.
- Hundreds of veterans volunteer to attend asylum hearings with Afghans
- DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
- Marines are now stationed on the California border. Newsom’s office calls it ‘mission creep’
- Why It Matters: A status update on the Midway homeless shelter
- DOJ announces a record-breaking takedown of health care fraud schemes