Catania named West Coast editor for Reuters

Ed Tobin, the acting general news editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

We are thrilled to announce Sara Catania is joining Reuters as West Coast Editor-in-Charge on U.S. General News, driving our coverage from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

Prior to joining Reuters, Sara worked at NBC4 in Los Angeles, first as editorial director of digital news and then as vice president of digital news at the station. During her tenure, the digital news team won the station’s first-ever national Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in journalism for online reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Before NBC, she was a regional editor at AOL’s Patch.com, where she spearheaded the launch of the Southern California operation. Sara has worked for Mother Jones, the LA Daily News, LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times, where she contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.

She taught news reporting and writing for five years at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. Johns College, a master’s in journalism from UC Berkeley and is the recipient of a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship from Stanford University. Before starting at Reuters in December, she will be completing a memoir during a four-week non-fiction writing residency at the Carey Center for Global Good in upstate New York. You can follow her on Twitter at @Catanify.

Please join me in welcoming Sara, who will be based in our Los Angeles bureau and report to the Editor of U.S. General News.