Katie Hyson
Racial Justice and Social Equity ReporterKatie Hyson reports on racial justice and social equity for KPBS. Prior to joining KPBS, Katie reported on the same beat for the local NPR/PBS affiliate in Gainesville, Florida. She won awards for her enterprise reporting on the erasure of a Black marching band style from Gainesville’s fields, one woman’s fight to hold onto home as local officials closed her tent camp, and more. Many of her stories were picked up by national and international outlets, including those on a public charter school defying the achievement gap, the police K9 mauling of a man who ran from a traffic stop, and conditions for pregnant women at a nearby prison.
Prior to that beat, she supervised the newsroom’s student digital team, served as a producer for the award-winning serial podcast “Four Days, Five Murders,” taught journalism classes for the University of Florida, and designed and launched a practicum series. She helped create the university’s first narrative nonfiction magazine, Atrium. She also earned her master’s in mass communications there, in a stunning act of treachery to her undergraduate alma mater, Florida State University. She is an alumna of the 2019 summer cohort of AIR Full Spectrum.
Hyson entered journalism after a series of community-oriented jobs including immigration advising, organic farming, nonprofit sex worker assistance. She loves sunshine, adrenaline and a great story.
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Black and Latino people in San Diego are disproportionately chased in vehicle pursuits — and for the most minor offenses. -
It allows developers to build more densely but only in historically redlined neighborhoods. -
With the first 2024 general election results coming in, the outcome of Proposition 33, which allows local governments to impose rent controls, is starting to take shape. Early voting and mail-in ballots are being tallied, but final results won’t be certified until Dec. 5. Stay tuned for the latest updates on this key measure. -
A new poll of likely California voters, shows presidential candidate Kamala Harris underperforming in a state where she and president Joe Biden won handily four years ago. In other news, in the South Bay, where many residents have close ties to immigrant communities, voting isn’t just about civic duty, it’s a chance to make their voices heard in a system they say often overlooks them. Plus, San Diego is holding a virtual open house to collect input on how to improve street safety. -
The U.S. Census often determines how the government allocates funding and draws political districts. It may be undercounting a key demographic in El Cajon. -
UC San Diego students arrested at protests calling for the university to divest from Israel are getting a crash course on legal defense.
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San Diego has seen multiple antisemitic flyering incidents in recent months largely taking place in District 7, represented by Campillo. -
California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force wraps up its historic work with a final report to lawmakers. -
Reported hate crimes increased in California in 2022, including instances of violence motivated by bias. That's according to state data released Tuesday.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps