CATHERINE KOMP

Catherine Komp has more than 20 years of experience in public and nonprofit media, serving as content director, senior editor, senior producer, reporter, announcer and host. A resident of Buncombe County, Catherine is the interim editor and producer of NC Local, a weekly newsletter covering the state's news and information ecosystem, a service of Elon University's NC Local News Workshop. Catherine previously served as Director of Content at Blue Ridge Public Radio, Senior Editor at Richmond, VA PBS/NPR affiliate VPM News and Senior/Features Editor at the international, daily radio program FSRN. Catherine was a 2020 Fellow in the CPB/ASU Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative; a winner of the Virginia Press Association’s 2020 Leadership and Innovation Awards; and has received dozens of other awards for her work, including a 2022 RTDNAC Award for Community Impact, a 2021 Regional Murrow Award for the podcast Resettled, a 2020 Regional Murrow Award for Overall Excellence, and a 2018 National Murrow Award for Excellence in Sound.