Producer Appreciation Weeks: Katerina Barton
As part of our Producer Appreciation Weeks, Host Melissa Harris-Perry talks with the professionals behind the scenes who bring you the stories you value and the shows you love.
Producer Katerina Barton revisits some of her favorite segments that she's produced throughout the past two years on The Takeaway:
- Gordon Plaza Residents Fight for Relocation from Toxic Land
- What is Driving the Truck Driver Shortage?
- What Does Queer Mean?
- Holiday Movie Prescriptions
- The Savannah Bananas Play Ball
Katerina joined The Takeaway as an intern in 2020 and came back as a temp producer in 2021, before she became an associate producer in 2022. She has produced nearly 300 segments for The Takeaway. Prior to joining the Takeaway, Katerina earned a duel master's degree at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism in Global & Joint Program Studies: Journalism & European/Mediterranean Studies Institute, worked as a reporter at a weekly paper in central Texas, and spent a year teaching English on a small island in Indonesia as part of a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship.
Find her on Twitter @KaterinaBarton.