Meet the Editor
About Kathy
- Visiting Editor - University of Texas School of Journalism
- Executive Business Editor, managing editor - Austin American-Statesman
- Re-engineering team member - Knight Ridder Inc.
- Deputy Managing Editor - Detroit Free Press
Experience
Managing Editor
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Austin American-Statesman
1996
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2011
- Executive business editor, managing editor
- Helped lead staffing and content improvements that raised the quality, aggressiveness and authority of the Statesman,
- Planned and edited award-winning journalism on major statewide, local and business issues
- Directed recruitment and staff development; directed strategy for and quality improvement of business coverage
Deputy Managing Editor
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Detroit Free Press
1989
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1996
- Organized and edited high-impact, multi-departmental special projects
- Directed national and foreign coverage
- Special content projects included national award-winning journalism, and a ground-breaking package based on the first-ever public opinion poll in the former Soviet Union
Education
University of Detroit Mercy
BA, Urban Studies
Academic Honors
Magna Cum LaudeAwards
- 2011 National Society of Business and Economic
Writers Award - Editor for a package on the departure of
the Sematech chip research
consortium from Texas and New York and the impact on the region's
semiconductor industry
Academia
- University of Texas School of Journalism - Visiting Editor for the Reporting Texas project
- East-West Center, University of Hawaii - Jefferson Fellowship to study Pacific Rim economic and political issues
- Judge for the Gerald Loeb Award, the top national business journalism award, administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management
Publications
- The Best Business Stories of the Year," Edited by Andrew Leckey, 2004 Vintage Press (includes series edited by Kathy Warbelow on outsourcing tech jobs to India)