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By sophomore year of college I knew I wanted to be in journalism. The question was: which media suited my skills best? I had to try it all to find the answer. So I hosted my own specialty radio show on a South Florida FM station. I founded a literary magazine on a campus where none existed. I wrote TV news for a local Fox affiliate in Miami at night and anchored a campus newscast early in the mornings. Later on, moving from Florida to New York City, I interned for CNN at their United Nations bureau. I took a course in photojournalism to explore focus and light and shade. At last, by the end of my college career, I finally figured it out. My greatest strength and passion lay in writing.
So I wrote.
I started out with The Montclair Times, a very distinguished weekly in Northern New Jersey, producing investigative articles and feature stories, winning journalism awards. Then I moved on to The Press of Atlantic City, where I covered southern Ocean County and its many issues from education, to crime to environment.
After quitting that job to stay home with my children, I kept writing. I wrote stories and articles for national children’s magazines and tried my hand at novels for teenagers. I am working on several other YA manuscripts -- even as I have taken the plunge back into the world of full-time journalism as the local editor for the newly expanded Barnegat-Manahawkin Patch.
Born in the Ukraine, I lived in Siberia and in Moscow before my family brought me to New York City at the age of almost-sixteen. I am married to a (very handsome) French-born Italian. Home is Manahawkin, New Jersey, a place I have claimed as my own since 2002, longer than any other town in my entire life!
Write to me at katia.raina@patch.com, with insight, your thoughts, observations, news tips/local concerns, or just to say "hello." I love getting emails from readers. Or you can contact me at (609) 276-6526.
Watch out for "damaging wind gusts," meteorologists say
Watch out for "damaging wind gusts," meteorologists say.
Watch out for "damaging windgusts," meteorologists say.
Watch out for "damaging wind gusts," meteorologists say.
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