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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Thousands of families, including those with members in the military, and veterans filled Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in Point Loma on Monday to honor fallen troops with a gun salute and wreath laying ceremony. -
KPBS Midday EditionFor two decades we've been hearing about cases of wrongful convictions - and until now it's been difficult to get a sense of exonerations in the U.S. We hear about a new database detailing exonerations and how it can help future cases. -
Pushing The Conventions Of Puppetry -
KPBS Midday EditionWashed Ashore Makes Art From Ocean Trash -
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The Navy's newest ship was christened Saturday evening on Cinco de Mayo in honor of the late Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez.
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Organizers from the San Diego Organizing Project, a local nonprofit, are planning to build a 40-foot statue of the Virgin Mary overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border in the likeness of the Statue of Liberty. -
KPBS Midday EditionThere is a full-scale media war underway as a pair of Mission Valley ballot measures seek voter support. -
A San Diego State student was diagnosed with meningococcal meningitis in the second case since the beginning of the month, the university announced Friday morning.
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