PERSON: Katie Pavlich

Editor

Katie Pavlich is the editor for Townhall.com and a former contributing editor to Townhall Magazine. She is the award winning author of Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women (Threshold Editions 2014) and the New York Times Best Seller Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up (Regnery 2012). As a reporter, she has covered a variety of topics ranging from presidential and congressional elections to White House scandals, the Department of Justice, the Second Amendment, border issues, the ongoing ISIS genocide of Christians in the Middle East and more. In 2014, Katie reported on Operation Protective Edge from Israel. Katie serves as a columnist for The Hill, Pittsburgh-Tribune and Women’s Outdoor News.<br> ​<br> As a Fox News contributor, Katie regularly co-hosts the daytime show Outnumbered, fills in as a guest co-host on the The Five and appears weekly on The O’Reilly Factor and The Kelly File. In 2015, Katie hosted Outdoor Channel’s first documentary Safe Haven: Gun Free Zones in America. She has also been interviewed for the History’s Channel’s America’s Book of Secrets series.<br> <br> Katie is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Journalism and is a former National Review Washington Fellow. She is a current fellow for the Foreign Policy Initiative.<br> <br> Katie has shared her perspective on multiple media venues including, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox Business, in addition to a host of national and local radio shows. She has served as a fill-in host for conservative radio host Mark Levin and as a guest co-host for Washington DC’s largest morning politics show on WMAL. She is a regular speaker on college campuses across the country and regularly participates in conference panels. In 2012 Red Alert Politics named Katie as one of the top 30-under-30 young professionals in the conservative movement. In 2013, Katie received the CPAC Blogger of the Year Award from the American Conservative Union and in 2014, she was named Woman of the Year by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.<br> ​<br> Katie serves as a board member for a number non-profit organizations, including the National Journalism Center, a project of Young America’s Foundation, and the Network of Enlightened Women. In 2015, Katie emceed the fifth annual Navy SEAL Legacy Foundation Gala in Dallas.<br> ​<br> Katie grew up in the mountains of northern Arizona, rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, and hunting big game with her father in the forests and deserts that Barry Goldwater called home. In her spare time she enjoys taking photos and spending time with friends, family and the great outdoors.<br> <br> — katiepavlich.com