https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog daily 0.75 2021-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1530536145462-RA5AXIA58DX34MCJA2E5/IMG_1884+%281%29.JPG Blog https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/atlas-obscura-episodes-2021 monthly 0.5 2021-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1632758388854-J85KKAY6M7XPDH9P9FPK/Katie+Thornton+podcaster+writer+historian+journalist+Atlas+Obscura+episodes+Cardiff+Giant+Wikimedia Blog - Four New Episodes of the Atlas Obscura Podcast Out Now - Make it stand out The Cardiff Giant, or “Old Hoaxy,” was “discovered” in New York in 1869. 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The UK is running out of space for the dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1543222777382-7YJGU1RXL0ZGLON2XMXP/Ariaf+Hussain+Katie+Thornton+Cemeteries+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Audio+Death+in+the+Digital+Age Blog - Can Cemeteries Be a Tool for Equity? Ariaf Hussain, manager of the Bristol City Council’s Cemeteries and Crematories, stands in a new cremation burial section at South Bristol Cemetery. He expects this section to be full by June 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1543223202813-SMM1EW01B377WKRFI963/York+Cemetery+Curb+Set+Graves+Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Death+in+the+Digital+Age+Audio Blog - Can Cemeteries Be a Tool for Equity? “Curb set” graves, like those seen above, can cost ₤9k-10k today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1543223495259-7N8H4Q6H7VF7NK10I60N/Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Audio+Death+in+the+Digital+Age+Cemeteries+Headshot+Small Blog - Can Cemeteries Be a Tool for Equity? https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/sound-memories-ariaf monthly 0.5 2018-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1543221070663-UX1XKQONNFW2YUSXZT0X/18-10-18+Ariaf+%2814%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Ariaf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1539526577035-ZYKZN32B15YN984I9A5Q/Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Death+in+the+Digital+Age+Audio+Cemetery Blog - Sound Memories: Ariaf https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/wwi-reflections monthly 0.5 2018-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1542036619220-X9ZMXMX01TPTIG7M58U6/Katie+Thornton+Death+in+the+Digital+Age+WWI+Memorial+Cemetery+Fulbright+National+Georgraphic+Digital+Storytelling Blog - WWI Reflections: War Memorials, Cemeteries, and Digital Archives On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, I brought a poppy to the grave of four women who died in a WWI munitions plant explosion. Since 1921, the British have commemorated the war dead with red poppies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1542037367392-KPU6O9PXH0ML950QPYYE/World+War+I+Cemetery+Memorial+Katie+Thornton+Death+In+The+Digital+Age+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow Blog - WWI Reflections: War Memorials, Cemeteries, and Digital Archives The grave of Private William Merriman stands tall on the centenary of the World War I Armistice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1542038192975-YI9B8W0U9FD1BTVXDUU9/Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Death+in+the+Digital+Age Blog - WWI Reflections: War Memorials, Cemeteries, and Digital Archives https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/sound-memories-diademuertos monthly 0.5 2019-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541098297576-UVKHM0L2C6XACBJ3R2NR/Katie+Thornton+Sound+Memories+Ofrenda+Group Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157309270-O0W17FSVKOGA1VD8XTZK/DSCF0925+%282%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157324782-06AY5UWS6OWZ4810TGCZ/DSCF0929+%282%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157308683-X5OCNEN3JU40XT0YI8WT/DSCF0921+%282%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157295987-0C1YLO7C9F5RY96DY1VL/DSCF0911+%282%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157400859-SJ9DWNO75B6BYQ8DYA1K/DSCF1080+%282%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157296322-Z0AWM63D7SF66KLN50IX/DSCF0918+%282%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1541157078152-1ZDJN9PE01XJK9X67MFL/Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Audio+Death+in+the+Digital+Age Blog - Sound Memories: Día de Muertos https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/sound-memories-adela monthly 0.5 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1540370149486-WQKGEX8E01ZKUOZX2NS6/06-10-18+AV+Lost+Boys+%2821%29.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Adela https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1539526577035-ZYKZN32B15YN984I9A5Q/Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Death+in+the+Digital+Age+Audio+Cemetery Blog - Sound Memories: Adela https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/sound-memories-steve monthly 0.5 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1539527440974-I54J68A7RWCK5CEP03GT/Steve_AudioPortrait_ImageResized.JPG Blog - Sound Memories: Steve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1539526577035-ZYKZN32B15YN984I9A5Q/Katie+Thornton+Fulbright+National+Geographic+Digital+Storytelling+Fellow+Death+in+the+Digital+Age+Audio+Cemetery Blog - Sound Memories: Steve https://www.itskatiethornton.com/blog/why-cemeteries-tell-us-more-about-the-living monthly 0.5 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1538487703562-WTFH9WFH3AWKTOPJFPPZ/Highgate+059.JPG Blog - Why Cemeteries Tell us More About the Living Than the Dead - Tales of Eras Past TALES OF ERAS PAST This grave at London’s Highgate Cemetery paints a picture of a time when infant mortality was so high that families could not always inscribe the names all those they had lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1538488933301-H7TKJ4OBD30LNY1J66MT/Highgate+049.JPG Blog - Why Cemeteries Tell us More About the Living Than the Dead PERMANENCE QUESTIONED There is a sense that stone is forever. But a string of deaths from collapsing graves led to strength-testing on tombstones across England in the 2000s. Countless monuments gave out under pressure, giving many English cemeteries a look of disrepair. Many of the markers that failed these tests were newer markers (not pictured), illustrating a lower grade of craftsmanship and tying cemeteries inextricably to larger industrial trends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1538488471919-TCE1R7VRO7XQXPUFRN9T/25-09-2018+Arnos+Vale+24+%282%29.JPG Blog - Why Cemeteries Tell us More About the Living Than the Dead A TREE THAT WILL NOT DIE This cross-shaped treestone from 1896 shows how members of rapidly urbanizing areas used rustic artistic tropes in their memorials. 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American-born film producer Hercules Bellville is among those buried in these grounds more recently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1538341125641-7H2I89SX7APZLI189S0F/MovingMonuments_Edited.jpg Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - Moving Monuments A tree dislodges a grave with ease. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1537362672624-BSALKQCCN7G26ZN4FVQW/Highgate+054.JPG Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - Resting Among The Trees Today Highgate Cemetery operates as an active burial ground and as a lush nature preserve. The grounds are now home to over 20 types of butterflies, 40 species of birds, and small mammals like foxes and badgers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1537362730076-OAH3CBWG4A4G9HY6HRS4/Highgate+056.JPG Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - Guidance Space was well utilized during Highgate’s heyday. Narrow footpaths guide visitors through a landscape that today is crowded with both graves and greenery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1537363171053-U0T3O2YXW7369HESAAF1/Highgate+063.JPG Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - No. 42840 This photo is not as sinister as it may look. The front of this tombstone bears the name of the inhabitant below. The back of many of Highgate’s headstones, like this one, indicate the burial number. Some even bear the name of the craftsperson who made the headstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1537363196418-AAHPP9ED8I2AZMJ4T3W4/Highgate+065.JPG Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - Deference to Nature Vining ivy, shifting land. The stones at Highgate have no choice but to yield to the demands of their wooded surroundings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1537363225047-1ZF1WO10U1PLMBC8WCS6/Highgate+067.JPG Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - "And his wife Lilian" The handiwork of curious researchers or living descendants uncovers lives well-lived—and reveals just how much headstones weather in 28 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1537363256133-HEG9MN06O76TYBVCP9PT/Highgate+111.JPG Blog - Graves and Greenery: London's Highgate Cemetery - A Mixing of Symbols This six-pointed star indicates a Masonic burial, rather than a Jewish burial. The Magnificent Seven cemeteries were largely seen as alternatives to churchyard burials, serving primarily Christian communities. 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Since then, they’ve been kept in check by a small group of federal workers from the U.S. and Canada. But now the project—and many like it—are under threat. 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Can they survive Trump’s cuts? (1,700 words) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/6f41be64-e2c8-4580-b224-96d59a3c582e/RS_JesusTakeTheDialLead.jpg Work - Make it stand out Rolling Stone, “Jesus, Take The Dial” Mirror Award Winner. In this investigative and narrative feature, I write about the little-known, billion-dollar nonprofit corporation behind Christian rock’s radio stranglehold — and the implications of such a takeover on culture and on local media. Featured in the Feb. 2024 print magazine. (6,000 words) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/0a018d6e-8398-4720-8434-80faf6d30584/Windell+Curole+Katie+Thornton+Author+Writer+Journalist+South+Lafourche+Louisiana+Levees Work - Make it stand out The Guardian, “This man saved his town from deadly floodwaters. Why did the government try to stop him?” Through the story of a renegade levee builder, we plunge into the nuances of funding and designing climate change-related infrastructure that necessarily relies on federal dollars as well as local expertise and needs — which can, at times, appear at odds. (4,100 words) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/36aee022-2fb4-40fe-b935-9df44da1d682/KatieThornton-GuardianAuthorWriter-LongCOVID-Lyme Work - Make it stand out The Guardian, “Desperate Long COVID Patients Turn to ‘Miracle Cures’” Part reported feature, part personal essay, I write about living with a so-called “contested illness” – and how many of us with such diseases are watching as thousands of Americans struggling with long COVID are hitting familiar dead ends or receiving skepticism from doctors, opening up a dangerous market for minimally tested alternative treatment options. (3,200 words) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/f8e5d2b0-5335-4be0-b116-d3b2e5eed3a4/KittyKat_CinemaTreasures.jpg Work - Make it stand out The Guardian, “How New Year’s Eve, Confetti, and a ‘Business Improvement District’ Transformed Times Square” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/9f678616-4612-49c2-a314-61a8f139d746/Katie+Thornton+Guardian+NFL+Cheerleaders+Author+Writer+Journalist+-+Cheer+Square Work - Make it stand out The Guardian, “NFL Cheerleaders Fight For Justice” (Apple News featured investigation and Weekend Read) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/607d19a8-455f-4aa0-80f5-089cbbcc5db3/Katie+Thornton+Guardian+Live+Nation+Portland+Venues+Music+Writer Work - Make it stand out The Guardian, “The Battle for America’s Last Live Nation-Free City” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/971f2045-2ed2-467f-8c41-1d500e612cc2/Atlantic_BlackMourning.jpg Work - Make it stand out The Atlantic, “Why We Wear Black to Mourn” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/402c3696-81b5-4e40-b608-2b04614f7a2b/65CA2207-0883-4CD6-8100-68E6C9EE7FF9.JPG Work - Make it stand out Rolling Stone, “For Independent Venues, Noise Complaints Can Be a Killer. Can Cities Help?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/a9468586-dcfd-4010-afd4-eab325cd7123/Guardian+Lambeau.jpg Work - Make it stand out The Guardian, “Green Bay: Where Fans, Not Billionaires, Are the Owners” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/bb508ac8-39a0-4ed0-86fb-c269b5d64713/CL1.jpg Work - Make it stand out CityLab, “How the Amusement Park Conquered America” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1617650950130-C002GEK64SH5NALNQ5H8/Katie+Thornton+author+reporter+writer+Death+Train+Out+of+London+National+Geographic+History+Magazine Work National Geographic History, “Death Train Out of London” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/3d9b3c0d-9c44-4f06-9f89-710de1be0cc5/Katie+Thornton+National+Geographic+History+Ada+Lovelace+Author+Writer Work - Make it stand out National Geographic History, “Ada Lovelace” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1617650987206-BTHPPU87OQVX1MJ38DYD/National+Geographic+Travel+Obsessions+Cemeteries+Katie+Thornton+author+writer+reporter Work National Geographic Traveler, “Obsessions: Cemeteries” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1617649998480-F63I1BSKQK9PVSG1X08X/Kirk+Civilian+Conservation+Corps+Washington+Post+Reporter+Katie+Thornton+Journalist+Writer+Author Work Washington Post, “In Reimagining a New Deal Program, Biden Can Eliminate Its Racism” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/1617650838927-P302FGYZITP0WBEFDKO6/Katie+Thornton+Streets+Skyways+and+Shopping+Malls+Author+Writer+Wildsam+Twin+Cities+Minneapolis+St.+Paul Work Wildsam Field Guides, “Streets, Skyways, and Shopping Malls” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5576ffc6e4b093fac0b442d2/7cc56bbb-2863-4487-8654-084b711a4d95/D93B6C25-D6D0-4E0E-9CEF-4BE26873A35F.png Work - Make it stand out WNYC’s On the Media, “The Divided Dial” (Series) My two-season, Peabody Award-winning series is all about radio. 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