Kate Parry

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Kate Parry

Assistant Managing Editor/Enterprise/Investigations

Phone: 612-673-4678

Kate Parry directs and edits major writing and reporting projects, and supervises the Features department. Her previous roles at the Star Tribune have included assistant managing editor/metro, investigations editor and health editor. She directed the series “Your Choice: Health Care’s New Era,” which received a National Headliner Award in 2009. Previously, Parry served as the Star Tribune’s ombudsman. In that role she received the Associated Press Freedom of Information Award in 2007 for columns explaining First Amendment issues to readers.

Before returning to the Star Tribune, she was a senior editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where the civic journalism projects she spearheaded on crime, immigration and poverty received the national James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism in 1998 and 2002. Her staff has been awarded four AP Public Service Awards, Public Service and Sweepstakes awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and five Frank Premack Public Affairs Journalism Awards. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and has served on the board of the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation and the Minnesota News Council. Parry holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University. .