Katie Pavlich

{{Short description|American journalist (born 1988)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Katie Pavlich

| image = Katie Pavlich by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg

| birth_name = Catherine Merri Pavlich

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|7|10}}

| birth_place = Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.

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| education = University of Arizona (BA)

| spouse = Gavy Friedson (2017–present)

| website = {{URL|katiepavlich.com}}

}}

Catherine Merri "Katie" Pavlich (born July 10, 1988){{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/statuses/222710457016918016 |title=Katie Pavlich |publisher=Twitter |access-date=July 24, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://redalertpolitics.com/thirty-under-thirty-2012/katie-pavlich/ |title=Katie Pavlich |publisher=Red Alert Politics |access-date=July 24, 2014}} is an American conservative commentator, author, blogger, and podcaster.{{Cite news|first=Maxwell|last=Tani|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-acosta-trump-cnn-conservative-media-2017-2?r=US&IR=T|title='The fix is in': CNN White House reporter says Trump is deliberately avoiding tough questions during press conferences|work=Business Insider|date=February 15, 2017|access-date=July 1, 2018}}

Early life and education

Pavlich was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to a family of Croat and German descent.{{cite web|url=https://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2015/04/04/slugging-potomac/2/|title=Slugging it out on the Potomac|work=Bearing Arms|first=Bob|last=Owens|date=April 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228181533/https://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2015/04/04/slugging-potomac/2/ |access-date=December 27, 2016|archive-date=December 28, 2016 }} She grew up in the mountainous areas of northern Arizona, where she developed interests in outdoor activities such as river rafting and hunting. Pavlich graduated from Sinagua High School in Flagstaff, where she played volleyball and basketball.{{cite web|title=Alumni Listings |publisher=Sinaguah High School |year=2006 |url=http://sinaguahighschool.org/alumni/4811930/katie-pavlich.html |access-date=July 24, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://azdailysun.com/sinagua-s-volleyball-team-sweeps-glendale-apollo/article_619e14e4-c9f9-5491-b054-defa6b1d19f5.html|title= Sinagua's volleyball team sweeps Glendale Apollo |work=Arizona Daily Sun|date=August 31, 2005|access-date=December 27, 2016}}{{cite web|first=Ed|last=Odeven|url=http://azdailysun.com/sinagua-page-advance-to-girls-tourney-title-game/article_55856dd2-3c06-5ca8-8307-7f096c98406d.html|title= Sinagua, Page advance to girls tourney title game |work=Arizona Daily Sun|date=February 7, 2006|access-date=December 27, 2016}}{{cite web|first1=Ed|last1=Odeven|first2=Todd|last2=Glasenapp|title= Sinagua, Page squads ready for Final Four |url=http://azdailysun.com/sports/sinagua-page-squads-ready-for-final-four/article_a95debc6-d76b-59ad-aaba-e61d90310854.html|work=Arizona Daily Sun|date=February 20, 2006|access-date=December 27, 2016}}

In 2010, Pavlich earned a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Arizona.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/person/p/katie-pavlich |title=Katie Pavlich |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=July 24, 2014}} As an adult woman with eligible ancestry, she became a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.{{cite web|first=Katie|last=Pavlich |url=http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/6388898-74/american-arizona-university |title=Proud to be an American |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |date=July 3, 2014 |access-date=July 16, 2014}}{{cite web |title=How to Join |url=https://www.dar.org/national-society/become-member/how-join |website=Daughters of the American Revolution |publisher=© 1890 - 2017, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) |access-date=November 21, 2018 |location=1776 D Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20006 |language=en |quote=Any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal, bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence is eligible to join the DAR.}}

Career

Pavlich moved to the Washington, D.C., area and became news editor for Townhall.com, a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine,{{cite web|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/katiepavlich/ |title=Katie Pavlich |publisher=Townhall.com |access-date=July 24, 2014}} and a Fox News contributor. In the summer of 2013, she became an alternate co-host for The Five, a panel talk show on the Fox News Channel. She was also a National Review Washington Fellow.{{cite web |url=http://nrinstitute.org/programs/washington-fellows/katie-pavlich |title=Katie Pavlich |publisher=National Review Institute |access-date=July 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019122230/http://nrinstitute.org/programs/washington-fellows/katie-pavlich |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |url-status=dead }} Pavlich has appeared on media outlets including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Fox Business. Starting in 2018, she co-hosted the podcast Everything's Going to Be All Right with former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/business/media/sean-spicer-talk-show.html|title=Sean Spicer Is Testing Out a New Job: TV Talk Show Host|last1=Grynbaum|first1=Michael M.|date=June 25, 2018|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 12, 2018|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|authorlink=Maggie Haberman|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}

The Conservative Political Action Conference named her 2013 Blogger of the Year.{{Cite web|url=https://www.simonandschuster.biz/authors/Katie-Pavlich/413343123|title = Katie Pavlich}}

{{Cite web|url=https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2013/03/17/video-katie-pavlich-cpac-blogger-of-the-year/|title=Video: Katie Pavlich, CPAC Blogger of the Year|last=Morrissey|first=Ed|date=March 17, 2013|website=HotAir|language=en|access-date=January 29, 2020}} The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute gave her the 2014 Woman of the Year Award, and the 2013 Conservative Leadership Award.{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Rachel|date=July 11, 2014|title=And the 2014 Woman of the Year Award Goes to ...|url=http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelwilliams/2014/07/11/and-the-2014-woman-of-the-year-award-goes-to-n1861185|access-date=July 24, 2014|publisher=Townhall}}

Pavlich serves as a guest/host on Fox News programs such as The Five, Jesse Watters Primetime, Fox News Sunday, The Big Weekend Show'’, America Reports and America's Newsroom''.

She is also the host of Fox Nation's lifestyle show Luxury Hunting Lodges of America. A luxury travel show where Pavlich travels to some of the most luxurious hunting and fishing lodges in the United States. The show has been running for three seasons, and has featured lodges in many states such as Texas, Wyoming, Louisiana, South Dakota, Arkansas, Alaska, and more.

She authored the books Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up (2012) and Assault & Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women (2014).

=Political Commentary=

On the March 19, 2019, broadcast of the Fox News show Outnumbered, Pavlich said that America was the first country to end slavery within 150 years, and receives no credit for it. The remark was disputed by PolitiFact, which noted that countries that outlawed slavery earlier and more quickly than the U.S. included El Salvador, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela.{{Cite web|url=https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2019/mar/21/katie-pavlich/conservative-pundit-gets-schooled-history-american/|title=Pundit gets schooled on history of American slavery|website=Politifact|language=en|access-date=January 22, 2020}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/20/us-should-get-more-credit-ending-slavery-within-years-fox-panelist-says/|title=The U.S. should get more credit for ending slavery 'within 150 years,' Fox panelist says|last=Flynn|first=Meagan|date=March 20, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 20, 2019}} In a reversal, she later said she had misspoken, meaning to say that America was "one of" the first countries to end slavery within 150 years "from the point of its founding".

In September 2019, she questioned Greta Thunberg's global warming activism, saying "She claims that there needs to be more information about the quote 'science,' but actually on the other side there needs to be more information about the hundreds of scientists who actually disagree with the projections of climate change."{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-contributor-dismisses-science-climate-change-greta-thunberg-1460263|title=Fox News contributor dismisses "the quote science" of climate change presented by Greta Thunberg|first=Jason|last=Lemon|date=September 19, 2019|magazine=Newsweek|language=en|access-date=October 5, 2019}}

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