Katy Newton
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Katy Newton
United States Fellow
kwnewton@stanford.edu
video journalist/interactive designer
San Francisco, Calif.
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Project: Create a model for presenting news stories in public spaces that invites collective exploration.
Katy Newton began her career working in San Francisco's documentary film and commercial industry. She moved gradually into journalism, by reporting and producing interactive stories for the Oakland Tribune with her husband, Sean Connelley, a staff photographer at the newspaper. One of her proudest achievements was the "Not Just a Number" project, an interactive community journalism initiative that took a new approach to the Tribune's annual homicide report. By using digital technology, they reinvented the way the paper covered issues of violence, humanizing the numbers and connecting with readers. The project was recognized with the 2007 Knight Foundation Service Journalism Award. Newton moved into journalism full time when she joined the Los Angeles Times' new multimedia department, working primarily in video. She has received numerous awards for her work, including a 2010 Emmy nomination, an Overseas Press Club Award and two Webby Awards: in 2009 for "I C U: Los Angeles Connections," a bimonthly web series that explored the people behind the "missed connections" section of Craigslist; and in 2010, for "Alabama's Homeboys," a web documentary that tells the story of ex-L.A. gang members making a difference in rural Alabama.
