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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The county unveiled a new interactive online "Know Your Hazards" map that pinpoints disaster risks at your location. -
A MAD Magazine cartoonist compares the first Comic-Con in 1970 to today's crowded, pop culture extravaganza. -
The Grammy Award-winning band Switchfoot, which got their start in Encinitas, is in town for their annual charity surf and music festival, BRO-AM. -
Three lions, including a rare white lion, will make their home at the Lions, Tigers & Bears animal sanctuary in Alpine. -
The U.S. Forest Service estimates California has lost more than 100 million trees to drought, fire and invasive beetles. In our own backyard, large oaks that shaded generations of San Diegans at sixth-grade camp are now stumps, calling on today's campers to reverse the damage. -
While cities struggle to get approval for higher density and new affordable housing, older affordable housing is disappearing.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe average cost of assisted living in California is $5,000 a month. Since this is out of reach for many retirees, they are choosing other options across the border. -
The plant’s majority owner, Southern California Edison, does not believe it should have to worry about rising sea levels beyond a couple of decades from now, even though millions of pounds of waste might still be stored at the site. -
KPBS Midday EditionDocuments reveal Edison representatives met with Coastal Commission staff at least three times and traded scores of emails more than a year ahead of a public vote on where to store radioactive waste from the shuttered nuclear plant.
- San Diego resident golfers teed off at their vanishing access to city-run courses
- Why It Matters: The backstory to San Diego's lawsuit over La Jolla independence fight
- Fuzzy bear cub found alone, now thriving in San Diego's Project Wildlife care
- Mayor Todd Gloria restores some funding to police, fire, animal services in revised budget proposal
- Gaylord Pacific opens, boosting Chula Vista Bayfront future