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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Ailyn Perez And Stephen Costello Perform 7 p.m. Friday At Balboa Theater -
Fourteen-Year-Old Convention Will Draw Thousands -
Action bans the public from the beach during harbor seal pupping season -
Verlin "Buzz" Fortin was on the USS Indianapolis when it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, and he has a harrowing tale to tell of sharks, hallucinations and rescue. -
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An immigrant-rights group critical of federal border authorities staged what they called a "Border Reality Checkpoint" at the San Ysidro crossing Wednesday.
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When new moms return to work, breastfeeding often goes by the wayside. But California has laws aimed at making it easier for working women who nurse. -
KPBS Midday EditionBreastfeeding rates in the U.S. fall short of federal goals, especially among African-American and Latina women. Some experts believe these disparities are due more to socioeconomic factors than race. -
The benefits of breastfeeding have been reported to be long-lasting for both babies and their mothers. But for many new moms, breast-feeding is a struggle.
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- California attorney general launches civil rights investigation into San Diego juvenile halls
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