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Katie Thornton

Award-winning journalism. Grounded in history.

I am an award-winning multimedia journalist, Fulbright Fellow, and public historian who seeks to reveal the unseen, ignored, and forgotten. From receiving a Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship to create a multimedia project about how and where remember the dead, to producing a first person radio story about skateboarding with Lyme Disease, to publishing a long-form historical essay about the unexpected origins of the Minneapolis skyway system, my reporting follows unmaintained roads to find the most thought-provoking stories in the least expected places. Since 2019, my articles and audio stories have been published by 99% Invisible, the BBC, National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, WNYC, Lantigua Williams & Co., The Washington Post, National Geographic, Wildsam Field Guides, Atlas Obscura, and others.

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