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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Four months ago hundreds of Tijuana's homeless were rounded up and put in drug rehabilitation centers, with city officials promising to pay for their treatment. Some centers say they've never been paid. And as many as 300 people caught in the sweep may be missing. -
Offered as reparations for extending Interstate 15 through City Heights, the Centerline project will help residents catch buses to job centers. -
Some San Diego County law enforcement officers are training in a technique that could be an extra tool when situations escalate.
- Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?
- Litigation at Green Oak Ranch in Vista continues and postpones future events
- Could this deadly intersection become San Diego's next 'quick-build' roundabout?
- California attorney general launches civil rights investigation into San Diego juvenile halls
- Preventable hospitalizations in California show continued health disparities as Medicaid faces possible cuts