Kathleen Koch is a CNN general assignment correspondent based in Washington, D.C., specializing in aviation reporting and serving as back-up correspondent at the Pentagon and the White House.
In 2005 and 2006, Koch provided moving reports from the Gulf Coast during and in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Her reports were featured in CNN Presents: Saving My Town – The Fight for Bay Saint Louis, a special that looked at the progress of Koch’s hometown in Mississippi six months after Katrina.
In 2004, Koch traveled the country covering the campaign of President George Bush, before being deployed south to Florida to report on the deadly series of hurricanes lashing that state. In 2003, she was part of CNN's around-the-clock coverage from the Pentagon on the build up to and the launch of the Iraq war. A year earlier, Koch was one of the primary correspondents covering the Washington-D.C-area sniper attacks. In 2001, she was part of CNN's Emmy award-winning coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Two months later, Koch was lead correspondent on CNN's coverage of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York.
Before joining CNN, Koch was a general assignment reporter covering Washington D.C., for multiple news organizations. She was also a consumer and medical reporter for the Group W Newsfeed Network and a weekend reporter at WRC-TV in Washington D.C. She was an anchor and State Department correspondent for "America Today," the U.S. Information Agency's two-hour daily international news broadcast to Europe.
Koch began her career, hired before graduating college, as a reporter and weekend anchor for the ABC affiliate WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Miss. Koch was a Rotary Foundation International Graduate Scholar at the University of Dijon in Dijon, France. She studied journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she was one of only 40 freshmen accepted into the university’s honors program.
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