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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A student leading the effort says that for the first time UC San Diego is leading other University of California schools in the number of students registered to vote. -
KPBS Midday EditionDon't expect Rossini's opera to be like the Disney cartoon -
A much larger Skyline Hills Library opened to the public Friday in southeastern San Diego. -
Concerns about persistent and widespread traffic tie-ups around a newly opened East County casino appeared to be unfounded Tuesday on its second day of operations. -
Three years ago, the San Diego International Airport underwent a $1 billion expansion and dedicated $6 million of that to adding artwork as a “calming distraction.” Now, they’ve added another form of artwork: the circus. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe writer-director-comedian says trust is key
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Several restaurants in San Diego have begun adding surcharges to diners' bills to compensate for increases in the city's minimum wage. Critics see the move as political posturing, but restaurateurs say with slim profit margins, they can no longer rely on simple price increases. -
As temperatures are set to drop below 50 Friday night, the city of San Diego says it has opened emergency homeless shelters. But that's not true — the city's own website says shelters won't open until Saturday. -
Research shows veterans are more likely to form businesses than other people, which makes San Diego a prime location for veteran entrepreneurs.
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- Standing by in San Antonio: the luxury plane from Qatar intended to replace Air Force One
- Ashli Babbitt's family settles wrongful death lawsuit for nearly $5 million
- San Diego County Sheriff's Office directing extra patrols of fertility clinics
- SD County extends closure of Silver Strand shoreline due to sewage flow