Katie Waterfall

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

In 2005, Katie Waterfall was awarded an Oscarson Discovery Grant which enabled her to accept an internship with ABC News in New York City.. In a letter expressing her gratitude to the Oscarson’s, she said,

As my internship experience comes to a close, I’d like to thank you again and again for helping make this dream become a reality. For the past year and a half I have tailored my school and job experience to come to New York and work at a major network. Having worked so hard, my expectations were high, but I can say without hesitation that my experiences at ABC News and in New York City are ones that I will never forget…At ABC News I worked specifically for the 20/20 and Primetime Live News magazines.

In these areas of the network I played an active and essential role in the production of the stories that aired on television…I gained relationships with producers and correspondents while working at ABC. These relationships I gained will help me as I enter the real world and look for a job in the news industry. Even more than networking power, these relationships offer a mentoring friendship. The people I have met and worked with have taught me how to be a more effective employee and how to do the job right. They have taught me about the impact news can have and how I can literally be a par of that. These relationships are the highlight of my internship experience.

Waterfall graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.