Kate Grumke

I’m Kate Grumke, the Senior Environment and Data Reporter at St. Louis Public Radio. I also report for Harvest Public Media, which covers agriculture and the environment for NPR stations in the Midwest and Great Plains, and I contribute to NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition and APM’s Marketplace.

In more than a decade in journalism, I’ve worked at the national and local level in both television and radio. I most enjoy stories about nature and the people working to protect it, but I’ve also covered national politics from Washington, D.C. and education in St. Louis.

I studied radio at Mizzou’s Journalism School, then took a TV detour as a correspondent and senior producer for Scripps News’ Longform team and eventually as a politics producer at PBS NewsHour. I then studied data journalism in Columbia University’s Lede Program and headed home to St. Louis to report for STLPR.

My work has been nominated for a national Emmy Award and has won a Peabody Award, a National Murrow Award and a regional Murrow Award. Projects I have produced or reported have also been finalists for a Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting and an EPPY Award, recipient of a certificate of merit from the Missouri Broadcasters Association and recipients of second and third place awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists.