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 EditionPuccini's "Madama Butterfly" is one of the most popular and most often performed operas. San Diego Opera's production promises to bring something new to the classic. -
A baby southern white rhino born Saturday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park may represent success for zoo researchers who have been working for eight years to solve the reproductive problems among the captive-born population. -
Hundreds of fans gathered at an East Village block party celebrating the opening game. -
For the last quarter century, volunteers for the nonprofit has been bringing meals to people who are too sick to cook on their own. -
New gym in Vista focuses on parkour and freerunning -
Seventy years ago, the deadliest plane crash at the time happened in the mountains of eastern San Diego County. The wreck was lost for decades, until a Poway man unearthed it last year.
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The Truax House, a century-old home in Bankers Hill that served as San Diego's first AIDS hospice, is undergoing an extreme makeover that'll change its uses but preserve its history. -
One San Diego resident has a personal connection to the late Sen. John McCain. Jim Bedinger said McCain's brash humor and fighting spirit were on display during their time at a North Vietnam prison camp. -
KPBS Midday EditionAs senior homelessness spikes in some parts of the state amid a shortage of affordable housing, Santa Monica is trying out rental subsidies to help keep its seniors off the streets.
- San Diego scientists offer non-opioid relief to chronic pain sufferers
- Veterans begin cross-country relay from San Diego
- English language proficiency requirement creates fear among Mexican truck drivers
- Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't
- Captive-bred axolotls thrive in Mexican wetlands, researchers find