Katie Shepherd is joining Morning Mix, which covers business, general news and entertainment, at the Washington Post as a staff writer.(https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2019/08/19/katie-shepherd-join-morning-mix-staff-writer/)
Shepherd spent the last two years covering Oregon’s criminal justice system and far-right extremism in the Pacific Northwest for Willamette Week, an alt-weekly in Portland, Ore.
Her reporting revealed an undisclosed inmate death in the state women’s prison and spurred lawmakers to close a legal loophole that allowed people to get away with stealing cars.
Her work covering the far-right in Portland pushed prosecutors to re-open an investigation into an
Shepherd previously interned with BBC News, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She graduated from UCLA and earned a master’s in journalism from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
She starts her new job Sept. 3.
Meanwhile, according to Comscore, 83.9 million people visited The Washington Post in July 2019, marking a 15-per-cent growth in audience year over year. Visits to the site on mobile devices grew by more than 16 per cent from July, 2019, to July, 2018. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2019/08/19/nearly-million-people-visited-washington-posts-website-july/)
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