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Katie Campbell

Online Editor/Reporter

About

Katie joined KUOW's online team as an editor and reporter in 2024, after serving three years as senior producer of the local Morning Edition program. She has covered a variety of local topics, including Seattle politics, elections, and the arts. She's also co-hosts KUOW's weekly arts podcast, Meet Me Here, highlighting the local literary scene and visiting authors.

In 2024, Katie created the KUOW Book Club, featuring stories and authors from the Pacific Northwest. Katie's picks have included classics, like Timothy Egan's "The Good Rain," and more recent hits, like Sonora Jha's "The Laughter." At the end of each month's reading, Katie interviews the featured author, giving readers a chance to hear from some of the most talented writers in the region. All readers are invited to join the KUOW Book Club by signing up for the newsletter at kuow.org/books.

Katie is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism, and in her spare time that isn't spent reading, she is a P-Patch gardener and an auntie.

Location: Seattle

Languages: English

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Professional Affiliations: Union Steward, SAG-AFTRA

Podcasts

Stories

  • caption: Liz Cartojano and James Riley Mose from a dance film that they produced for the #AZNxBLM project.

    Is Black and Asian solidarity possible? These artists say yes

    Inspired by a bold mural by Vietnamese artist Tân Nguyen and Black Seattle artist Moses Sun, KUOW's Kristin Leong saw the potential these communities held if they could come together for a common cause. But that meant overcoming two particularly steep challenges: that a lot of people just don't want to talk about race, and that there is long-standing tension between the Asian and Black communities.

  • caption: Jared, left, and Jessika, right, paint a Register to Vote street mural inside the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, CHAZ, or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, CHOP, on Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Seattle.

    Out of the election and into... another election. This week in politics

    Just when you thought you might catch a break from the rough edges of national politics, a new race is taking shape for Washington's 8th Congressional District seat. Republican Matt Larkin - who ran for attorney general last year and lost - is taking on incumbent Democratic Representative Kim Schrier.
  • caption: Marty Jackson, left, and Gracie Ann, right, sit in the doorway of a boarded up business in front of a mural that reads 'Hope is Not Cancelled,' on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, along First Avenue South in Seattle.

    'You are only defeated if you stop fighting'

    Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher of the South Seattle Emerald and columnist for the Seattle Times. He's a Black man who grew up in South Seattle. And he spoke to KUOW's Morning Edition about how this city has changed - after George Floyd was killed but also long before that.

  • caption: Governor Jay Inslee points to the crowd after announcing his candidacy for President on Friday, March 1, 2019, at A&R Solar on Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Seattle.

    If a bargain gets vetoed, was it ever really 'grand'? This week in politics

    Washington Governor Jay Inslee is in hot water - with Republican lawmakers, yes, but also some fellow Democrats. It’s about a so-called “grand bargain” agreed to during the recent legislative session in the state Senate. That deal smoothed the way for the passage of two landmark climate bills: a carbon-cap program and clean fuel standards.

  • caption: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announces that no counties will phase down for two weeks, May 4, 2021.

    'It's getting pretty hot' - this week in politics, not the weather

    How would you like to be stuck in Phase 2 of the state's reopening plan while the bulk of Washington counties gets to remain in the more relaxed, more business-friendly Phase 3? Pierce County, which was rolled back to Phase 2 three weeks ago, doesn’t like it one bit. Some loc