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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KPBS Midday EditionPuccini's "Madama Butterfly" is one of the most popular and most often performed operas. San Diego Opera's production promises to bring something new to the classic. -
A baby southern white rhino born Saturday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park may represent success for zoo researchers who have been working for eight years to solve the reproductive problems among the captive-born population. -
Hundreds of fans gathered at an East Village block party celebrating the opening game. -
For the last quarter century, volunteers for the nonprofit has been bringing meals to people who are too sick to cook on their own. -
New gym in Vista focuses on parkour and freerunning -
Seventy years ago, the deadliest plane crash at the time happened in the mountains of eastern San Diego County. The wreck was lost for decades, until a Poway man unearthed it last year.
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KPBS Midday EditionStandardized testing has put an intense focus on reading and math in U.S. schools, causing enrollment in arts classes to plummet. So scientists are conducting their own tests — in the form of MRIs and EEGs — to make the case for bringing arts education back. -
Driven by Santa Ana winds, a brush fire ignited Thursday morning off of Interstate 15 and State Route 76 in the Bonsall-Fallbrook area, burning at least 4,100 acres, destroying at least 65 structures, according to fire officials. -
If you or your loved ones live in an area prone to wildfires, there are certain steps you can take to be prepared.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls on Marine Corps to pause contract with Oceanside-based Frontwave Credit Union
- University of San Diego faculty on strike Wednesday and Thursday
- San Diego County Supervisors OK plans for 2 affordable housing projects
- Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope, choosing the name Leo XIV
- Pilot error cited as root cause of helicopter crash that killed 5 Marines