Kathryn Hurd

Kathryn Hurd

Kathryn Hurd

Senior Reporter, Investigative Reporting Program

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Kathryn Hurd is a senior reporter at UC Berkeley’s nonprofit newsroom and teaching institute, the Investigative Reporting Program. Her reporting has appeared in ProPublica, the Los Angeles Times, PBS Frontline, KQED, and the San Francisco Examiner. In 2022, she was part of the George Polk Award-winning team behind the FRONTLINE documentary American Insurrection. In 2023, her investigation into Los Angeles County’s foster care housing shortage contributed to policy changes that ended the county’s practice of housing foster youth in hotels. She is currently at work on her next investigation focused on the child welfare system.

EDUCATION

  • M.J. University of California, Berkeley
    Investigative Reporting
    Class of 2021

  • B.A. Wake Forest University
    Political Science & Sociology
    Class of 2018

REPORTING INTERESTS

Investigative reporting