Kate Winkler Dawson

Kate Winkler Dawson is a non-fiction, history, and crime author best known for her debut novel “Death in the Air.” Dawson has more than twenty-five years’ experience in television, where she worked as a writer, line producer, and field producer for some of the largest news companies in the United States. She started as an associate producer and editor at “KVUE-24” in Austin, before she became a producer at “KEYE 42.” She went to Boston University to get her bachelor’s in broadcast journalism and during this time she worked for “WLVI” as a political field producer in Boston. Kate was critical in the coverage of the New Hampshire presidential primaries in 1996. The following year, she moved across the pond to work as a United Press International wire service reporter in London while she did her final semester at Boston University. Once she graduated from college, she got employment with “WCBS,” the flagship station for “CBS” in New York, where she worked as a field producer and writer. She spent five years as a freelance producer and then two more years freelancing as an off-air reporter/producer for “ABC Network News Radio.” Working as a freelance show producer, she was responsible for several top shows on “Fox News.” For two years, she was a staff field producer for the San Francisco Bureau of “Fox News” and traveled all across the US working on national news.