Kaitlin Schroeder
Digital Editor/Deputy News DirectorExpertise: Editing, digital journalism, podcasts, social media
Contact: kschroeder@wyso.org
Kaitlin Schroeder (she/her) is the new deputy news director and digital editor at WYSO Public Radio.
Schroeder joins WYSO with 10 years of experience in local news. This includes working as a health care reporter for Dayton Daily News; a real estate, retail and restaurants reporter for Dayton Business Journal; and a general assignment reporter for the Morning Sentinel in central Maine. After college, she also interned as a reporter at Kosova Live in Pristina, Kosovo.
She was recognized by the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors as Best Business Reporter in 2018 and 2019.
Most recently, Schroeder worked as the marketing and communications manager for YWCA Dayton, which is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women and operates Montgomery and Preble counties’ only domestic violence shelters.
In January, Schroeder started a term as a director on the board of HUES Women’s Health Advocacy Institute, which envisions a community capable of addressing the interpersonal and systemic barriers that Black, Indigenous and Women of Color face navigating health and wellness systems.
Schroeder is involved with House of Bread and the community garden in the Jane Reece neighborhood in Dayton, where she lives with her husband and two-year-old son.
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The Kettering Tree Committee is starting the initiative to improve the health of Kettering's urban forest. -
Dr. Robert Steele, the next CEO of Dayton Children’s, started as a pediatrician and has worked as a health care executive in Missouri and Arkansas. -
The man was stopped while riding a bike. Police say the shooting happened after the man ran and a struggle between the officer and the man. -
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled against the Trump administration, which argued it was harmed by Haitians with Temporary Protected Status remaining in the U.S. while the lawsuit plays out. -
The dam at Germantown is temporarily storing water in its upstream basin. -
First Brands, which makes auto parts, will lay off more than 300 workers in Darke County. The company is going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. -
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Dayton) reacted to the strikes on CBS Face the Nation on March 1. -
The training exercises will be held March 2-4 in the area of East Second Street and North Jefferson Street, in downtown Dayton. -
Dayton’s Republican Congressman said President Donald Trump should apologize. The Dayton unit of the NAACP called on U.S. Rep. Mike Turner to do more. -
The Trump administration is appealing a decision by a federal judge, which allowed Temporary Protected Status for Haiti to continue while a lawsuit plays out.
