Katie Simpson
{{short description|Canadian journalist}}
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- University of Western Ontario}}|show=|station=|network=CBC Television
CBC News Network|timeslot=|show2=|station2=|network2=|timeslot2=|style=|country=|prevshow=|parents=|spouse(s)=|partner=|children=|memorials=|website=|module=}}Katie Simpson is a Canadian journalist who is currently a foreign correspondent for CBC News based in Washington, D.C.{{Cite news|title=Katie Simpson – Politics {{!}} CBC|language=en-US|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/author/katie-simpson-1.3769238|access-date=December 21, 2020}}
Education
Simpson holds a bachelor's degree in media, information and techno culture from Western University.{{Cite web|date=October 30, 2019|title=CBC News Washington Bureau hires Simpson as foreign correspondent|url=https://talkingbiznews.com/we-talk-biz-news/https-twitter-com-cbckatie-status-1189219183747309569/|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=Talking Biz News|language=en-US}}
Career
Simpson reported on the Rob Ford video scandal for CP24.{{Cite web|date=November 14, 2013|title=Reporter Has The BEST Reaction To Rob Ford|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/14/rob-ford-katie-simpson_n_4274748.html|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=HuffPost Canada|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Rob Ford video: The moment Toronto mayor's profane comment leaves reporters stunned|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/rob-fords-more-than-enough-to-eat-comment-stuns-toronto-reporters|access-date=December 21, 2020|website=nationalpost|language=en-CA}}
She worked in the parliamentary press gallery in Ottawa{{cite news |last1=Moss |first1=Neil |title=Scribes on the move: Andy Blatchford, Ryan Tumilty join new Hill bureaus; Katie Simpson heads to D.C., and Marie-Danielle Smith joins Maclean’s |url=https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2019/10/30/scribes-on-the-move-andy-blatchford-ryan-tumilty-join-new-hill-bureaus-katie-simpson-heads-to-d-c-and-marie-danielle-smith-joins-macleans/280087/ |access-date=22 April 2025 |work=The Hill Times |publisher=The hill times |date=30 Oct 2019}} until 2019 when she became a foreign correspondent at the CBC News Washington Bureau in October 2019.
Simpson covered the 2019 Canadian federal election{{Cite web|date=July 20, 2019|title=Katie Simpson – Can Justin Trudeau win the Canadian election?|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018704991/katie-simpson-can-justin-trudeau-win-the-canadian-election|access-date=February 18, 2021|website=RNZ |language=en-nz}} and the 2020 United States elections for CBC.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=February 8, 2020|title=CBC's Katie Simpson on American politics, the 2020 election and holding politicians accountable|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/are-pedestrians-safe-where-you-live-1.5454540/cbc-s-katie-simpson-on-american-politics-the-2020-election-and-holding-politicians-accountable-1.5457837|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=CBC News}}
In 2024, she reported on the prosecution of Donald Trump in New York.{{Cite web |last=Panetta |first=Alexander |date=May 30, 2024 |title=Here are 3 potential outcomes of the Trump jury deliberations |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-jury-deliberations-watch-1.7218775 |website=CBC News}}
References
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External links
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Category:University of Western Ontario alumni
Category:21st-century Canadian journalists
Category:Canadian women television journalists
Category:CTV Television Network people
Category:CBC Television people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Category:21st-century Canadian women journalists
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