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 EditionSan Diego City Beat report reveals high use of pepper spray in San Diego juvenile lock-ups, much higher than Los Angeles County. We take a look at some of the possible reasons behind the numbers. -
Rebecca Hicks And Paul Horn Are Drawn And Quartered -
At Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, three California Elephant Seals have been rescued in the past week. -
Historically accurate replica of Cabrillo's San Salvador will sail to celebrate discovery of San Diego -
Circle Circle Dot Dot Finds Its Inner Diva -
San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher announced Wednesday he's leaving the Republican Party and re-registering as an independent.
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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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