Background
She grew up in Yorba Linda, California, and attended Esperanza High School, where she ran track and cross country, and wrote for the school newspaper and the youth section of The Los Angeles Times.
( In this first novel by a CNN political correspondent, a...)
In this first novel by a CNN political correspondent, a D.C. consultant lands herself in the middle of a high-profile scandal while spinning the case of the century Kate Boothe is sitting pretty in Rome, drinking good wine, enjoying the company of the most handsome man in the world, and trying to take a well-deserved breather from her work as a political consultant. Then her business partner, Jack Vanzetti, flies out to tell her that someone has been selling military secrets to the Chinese, and that her least-favorite ex, muckraking reporter Lyle Gold, has been fingered as the guilty party. With the country in a state of patriotic panic, nobody is willing to take Lyle’s side; by stepping into the breach, Vanzetti & Boothe could finally have the big win they need in order to consult on a presidential campaign. Kate is more interested, however, in the question of Lyle’s innocence: while she’s willing to believe him capable of many offenses— he dumped her, after all—treason seems out of character. And since the political climate demands that someone hang, perhaps literally, she decides to come to Lyle’s defense. But she quickly discovers that she’ll make no friends by investigating the complicated intrigues of the military/political elite, and finds that the stakes are higher than even she had realized. As sharp and irreverent as its heroine—a woman who’s willing to take on the fight of her life armed only with brains, charm, and a couple of bottles of champagne—The Latest Bombshell is a witty, savvy debut.
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She grew up in Yorba Linda, California, and attended Esperanza High School, where she ran track and cross country, and wrote for the school newspaper and the youth section of The Los Angeles Times.
She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and MSJ in 1992.
Throughout college, she wrote sports for the Chicago Tribune. Her first job was on Capitol Hill, where she was the youngest congressional communications director, for Republican Pete Geren (Doctorate-Texas), who became the Secretary of the Army for Presidents George West. Bush and Barack Obama.
The book led to a job at Cable News Network Headline News as a political analyst for the 2000 election.
She particularly emphasized the Patriot Acting, which earned her the verbal disdain of Attorney General John Ashcroft"s staff and frequent appearances on Politically Incorrect. She left Headline News in 2003 after her second novel was published, but returned to television on Nowe with Bill Moyers on Public Broadcasting Service. There, she filed investigative stories on the war on terror, vote fraud, women and the economy, and the Abramoff scandal.
In 2006, she founded the independent multi-platform media company Film at Eleven Media, an independent media company, distributing news programming on the Internet and mobile. In 2009 she produced the short documentary "Reporting for Duty" about Israeli reservists in the 2nd Lebanon War, which aired on Public Broadcasting Service and on the Internet to a total audience of 10 million.
In 2013, she began filming The Uncondemned with co-director Nick Louvel, a documentary about the first time rape was prosecuted as a war crime during the Rwanda genocide.
In March 2015, she presented on the film at Docudays, an annual Human Rights Documentary Film festival in Kiev, Ukraine. In April 2015, she gave a TedX talk called "What"s Rape"s Brand" at TedXNavesink which discusses the topic of the film. The Uncondemned is currently in postproduction and is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2015.
She also serves on the advisory board of the Authors Guild of America, Amman Imman and BYKids.
She has reported extensively from Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Jordan, West Bank, Israel, Lebanon, Libya and Morocco and most of the 50 states.
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Her journalism career began during the height of the "Generation X" political trend, which she wrote about in 1998 in her first book, A New Kind of Party Animal: How the Young Are Changing Politics As Usual (Simon & Schuster). In 2001, she became the political anchor at Headline News, covering daily political stories and, post-9/11, she filed one of the last interviews given by the mujahadeen Abdul Haq.
Here she produced and directed the critically acclaimed television documentary " Where Did the Money Go" The film, which aired over 1,000 times in the United States on Public Broadcasting Service stations generated controversy when the American Red Cross attacked it as "inaccurate." However, the film was embraced by the Haitian community, activists, aid workers and Members of Congress, and was screened at the Oakland Film Festival and the Bolder Life Film Festival in 2012.