“After the Hurricane: Getting Mississippi’s Story Told”
AFTER THE HURRICANE:
‘Getting Mississippi’s Story Told’
Speaker: Kathleen Koch
Saturday morning general session 8:00 A.M.
Kathleen Koch is a CNN general assignment correspondent based in Washington, D.C., specializing in aviation reporting and serving as back-up correspondent at the Pentagon and the White House.
In 2005 and 2006, Koch provided moving reports from the Gulf Coast during and in the aft ermath of Hurricane Katrina. Her reports were featured in CNN Presents: Saving My Town – Th e Fight for Bay Saint Louis, a special that looked at the progress of Koch’s hometown in Mississippi
six months aft er Katrina.
Before joining CNN, Koch was a general assignment reporter covering Washington D.C., for multiple news organizations. She was also a consumer and medical reporter for the Group W Newsfeed Network and a weekend reporter at WRC-TV in Washington D.C. She was an anchor and State Department correspondent for “America Today,” the U.S. Information Agency’s two-hour daily international
news broadcast to Europe.
Koch began her career, hired before graduating college, as a reporter and weekend anchor for the ABC affiliate WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss.
Koch was a Rotary Foundation International Graduate Scholar at the University of Dijon in Dijon, France. She studied journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she was one of only 40 freshmen accepted into the university’s honors program.