Katherine Poythress is first and foremost a communicator. Since she began her first journal at the age of 9, she has been an insatiable writer and enjoys applying her skills to reporting and reviewing current events. She has a passion for government coverage and for what many term "watchdog journalism." She enjoys educating through and messaging for every medium, from text to video to radio to photograph.
She is currently a staff writer for U-T San Diego, covering public works in San Diego County's South Bay after spending a brief stint freelancing for local publications.
She is the former education reporter-host for Honolulu Civil Beat, one of the hottest journalism startups this century, where she earned first-place awards for public service journalism, government reporting and news photography from the state's SPJ chapter.
She holds a B.A. in English from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., where she was an active member of the Herbert H. Dow Journalism Program. She started out at her campus paper, the Hillsdale Collegian, timidly and self-consciously writing movie reviews, and graduated into a full-fledged reporting position after one year and much encouragement from her editors. She subsequently held the titles of senior reporter, copy editor and mentor.
In summer 2007, Katherine interned as a staff writer for Cybercast News Service in Alexandria, Va. She focused her efforts on investigative journalism, though her hard news pieces were frequently the most-read stories of the week. She received numerous requests to appear on several national network television and radio shows to discuss her investigations.
After her 2008 graduation, she served as a reporter in the Sylacauga, Ala. bureau of The Daily Home, covering Talladega and St. Clair counties in eastern Alabama. From there, she went to The Gadsden Times in northeastern Alabama, where she covered government works, courts, education and non-profits.
She is originally from Birmingham, Ala. and is the second oldest of eight children.
Her favorite hobbies (in no particular order) include reading, writing, CrossFit, hiking, running, photography, playing drums and piano, drinking coffee, cooking, browsing the dictionary, analyzing people, Sudoku, Scrabble and Words With Friends, collecting T-shirts she never wears, dabbling in interior design, reading children's books, playing with her dog and (yes) cleaning.
She is currently a staff writer for U-T San Diego, covering public works in San Diego County's South Bay after spending a brief stint freelancing for local publications.
She is the former education reporter-host for Honolulu Civil Beat, one of the hottest journalism startups this century, where she earned first-place awards for public service journalism, government reporting and news photography from the state's SPJ chapter.
She holds a B.A. in English from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Mich., where she was an active member of the Herbert H. Dow Journalism Program. She started out at her campus paper, the Hillsdale Collegian, timidly and self-consciously writing movie reviews, and graduated into a full-fledged reporting position after one year and much encouragement from her editors. She subsequently held the titles of senior reporter, copy editor and mentor.
In summer 2007, Katherine interned as a staff writer for Cybercast News Service in Alexandria, Va. She focused her efforts on investigative journalism, though her hard news pieces were frequently the most-read stories of the week. She received numerous requests to appear on several national network television and radio shows to discuss her investigations.
After her 2008 graduation, she served as a reporter in the Sylacauga, Ala. bureau of The Daily Home, covering Talladega and St. Clair counties in eastern Alabama. From there, she went to The Gadsden Times in northeastern Alabama, where she covered government works, courts, education and non-profits.
She is originally from Birmingham, Ala. and is the second oldest of eight children.
Her favorite hobbies (in no particular order) include reading, writing, CrossFit, hiking, running, photography, playing drums and piano, drinking coffee, cooking, browsing the dictionary, analyzing people, Sudoku, Scrabble and Words With Friends, collecting T-shirts she never wears, dabbling in interior design, reading children's books, playing with her dog and (yes) cleaning.
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