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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New artistic director Matt Morrow kicks off 30th anniversary season at Diversionary Theatre -
The 200-ton full-scale replica of the first ship to sail into San Diego Bay in 1542 made its public debut as it voyaged across San Diego Bay Friday under engine power - something that explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's ship didn't have. -
Arts complex wants to be Balboa Park of North County -
The Bud Kearns Pool in Balboa Park was originally supposed to be closed from February until the end of April for repairs. Four months later, it’s still closed. -
The original San Salvador came to San Diego as the leader of three ships, when Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was looking for new trade routes from Mexico to Asia and Europe. -
San Diego Maritime Museum workers and volunteers have been working since 2011 to build the replica of the 500-year-old Spanish galleon ship that will make its formal debut in September.
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The San Diego Housing Commission will appear before a council committee later this month to explain its decision to opt out of a federal program aimed at desegregating cities. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe California Democratic Party’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the race to replace Rep. Darrell Issa puts the Democrats in a vulnerable position. The Flip the 49th campaign is looking for ways to narrow the field. -
KPBS Midday EditionOlivia Caceres, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, has been reunited with her 1-year-old son, Mateo, after months of back-and-forth with The Office of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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- A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target
- Kaiser mental health workers near return to work after historic strike
- Paid parking in Balboa Park? San Diego residents may get a discount
- San Diego nonprofit auctions off rare set of Italian cookbooks