Katelyn Umholtz
Digital Editor, WWNO & WRKFKatelyn Umholtz is the digital editor for WWNO and WRKF and is based out of New Orleans.
She has been at both stations since 2021, and in that time, helped produce award-winning journalism, particularly during Hurricane Ida. Katelyn has also helped grow the stations' newsletters, social media presence and has made digital coverage a newsroom priority.
Before joining the team, Katelyn was a digital producer/editor and breaking news reporter at the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate for two years. In that time, she covered the Hard Rock Hotel collapse, for which she and a team of reporters earned a Green Eyeshade Award for disaster reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic, Mardi Gras and multiple hurricanes. She was an education reporter for the Valdosta Daily Times in Valdosta, Georgia, before moving to New Orleans.
Katelyn is from Hinesville, Georgia, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Georgia. She loves all things pop culture, trying new restaurants in New Orleans and spoiling her two cats, Boo and Cooper.
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Another parade is getting shortened for Mardi Gras 2022 and is making other adjustments due to police staffing shortages and the omicron surge.
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With winter weather heading for parts of southeast Louisiana, government offices and schools are in the process of deciding whether to close or remain open.
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It's been three years since the last New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival took place in the New Orleans Fair Grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic canceling two years of festival activities. But in 2022, event organizers said the actual event is coming back.
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Louisiana reached a pandemic milestone on Tuesday, with the state health department reporting more than 1 million positive COVID-19 cases.
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The state health department reported 17,592 new cases of COVID-19, the highest daily report of new cases, on Wednesday, breaking Friday’s record of 14,802 cases.
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Due to hospitalization rates that continue to climb and overwhelm the healthcare system, the indoor mask mandate is back in place for New Orleans starting Wednesday, according to officials.
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Less than a week after coming into office, a Jefferson Parish School Board member who attended the Jan. 6, 2021 rally and verbally attacked opponents of former President Donald Trump in social media posts has resigned from his position.
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For the second consecutive day on Friday, Louisiana health officials reported the highest daily count of COVID-19 cases ever during the pandemic amid an unprecedented surge from the highly transmissible omicron variant.
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Louisiana marked a new record high for daily COVID-19 cases reported to the state on Thursday, with 14,007 new cases reported.
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Mardi Gras parades in 2022 would not be moved from their original route or traditional day — the routes will just be slightly tweaked, officials announced during a press conference.