Katey Rusch
Katey Rusch
Record Requests Manager and Data Journalist, California Reporting Project
Katey Rusch is records request manager and data journalist for UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. Her work focuses on police misconduct. In 2019, she was part of a team of reporters at the Investigative Reporting Program, the Mercury News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting who worked on a series of stories related to a “secret list” of California’s criminal cops. The series was a finalist for a Scripps Howard Award.
Before joining the Investigative Reporting Program, Katey spent a decade as an on-air reporter and writer in local television newsrooms, including stops in Seattle, Phoenix, Bakersfield, California, Duluth, Minnesota, and Topeka, Kansas. As a video journalist, Katey won numerous awards, including several Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow award for a series about fracking and the potential energy in shale oil reserves. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.