Katie Thorton
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Katie Thorton
Award-winning journalism. Grounded in history.
I am an award-winning multimedia journalist, Fulbright Fellow, and public historian who seeks to reveal the unseen, ignored, and forgotten. From narrative audio work about the unexpected origins of the Minneapolis skyway system to reported essays about the untold stories of the New Deal, my storytelling follows unmaintained roads to find the most thought-provoking stories in the least expected places. Since 2019, my articles and audio stories have been published by 99% Invisible, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CityLab, National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, WNYC, National Geographic, Wildsam Field Guides, Atlas Obscura , and more.
Award-winning journalism. Grounded in history.
I am an award-winning multimedia journalist, Fulbright Fellow, and public historian who seeks to reveal the unseen, ignored, and forgotten. From narrative audio work about the unexpected origins of the Minneapolis skyway system to reported essays about the untold stories of the New Deal, my storytelling follows unmaintained roads to find the most thought-provoking stories in the least expected places. Since 2019, my articles and audio stories have been published by 99% Invisible, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CityLab, National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, WNYC, National Geographic, Wildsam Field Guides, Atlas Obscura , and more.
Award-winning independent journalist and Fulbright Fellow making historically informed podcasts and essays, focusing on stories that have been ignored and forgotten.
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I am an award-winning independent journalist, Fulbright Fellow, and multimedia producer. My audio, writing, and photos have been published by 99% Invisible, the BBC, National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Guardian, WNYC, Minnesota Public Radio, National Geographic, Wildsam Field Guides, Atlas Obscura, and others. As a storyteller, my background in historical research informs all my work—from explorations of how and where we remember the dead, to the classism and racism hidden in plain sight in our built environments, to our present-day food, sport, and culture. When I'm not producing, you can find me getting intentionally lost in familiar and unfamiliar places alike, turning door handles in public places in case they're unlocked, or falling off my skateboard at the local park (and making radio about it).
An episode exploring the reasons why so many people in American cities still don't have internet access — and how activists and local governments are pushing back
A radio story about one London football club that makes it easy for lifelong fans to become eternal fans — and the impact it’s having on families of the deceased
An audio essay exploring the emotional—and environmental—impacts of our physical and virtual remains
An audio story about the unexpected origins of the word "mesmerize," and how a disproven 18th century medical phenomenon continues to shape psychology today.
A Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Award-winning personal audio essay on skateboarding with chronic illness
Check out my written work—featured in National Geographic, the Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, Wildsam Field Guides, and more—by clicking the text above.
99% Invisible - "Beneath the Skyway"
A story-driven historical documentary uncovering why the Twin Cities’ skyway systems aren’t just intriguing cold-weather designs—they’re also an architecture of literal and figurative division that many feel segregate our downtowns and harm the streets below.
A 40 minute documentary explaining why this South Minneapolis apartment building used to be called “The Infantorium,” and how premature babies and the incubators that kept them alive were amusement park sideshows for over four decades.
Association of MN Public and Education Radio Stations - "A Brief History of Women in Bars: A Minnesota Story in Three Rounds"
Winner of a Minnesota SPJ Award, my independently researched, written, edited, and produced audio documentary tells stories of the intersections—and shortcomings—of Minnesota’s women’s suffrage and temperance movements. The 45-minute doc uses the stories of women from 100 years ago to show how Minnesota’s temperance movement set the stage for its women’s suffrage movement. But it also shows how white temperance leaders—and, by proxy, many early white suffragists—failed to engage working class, immigrant, Black, and Native women.
99% Invisible: Life and Death in Singapore
A 35 minute documentary about the constant exchange of land between the dead and the living in modern Singapore—as told through one particularly intriguing cemetery-turned-housing-project.
Skills Story Editing Social Media Research Reporting Producing Logistics and Coordination Interviewing Grant Writing Field Recording Audio Engineering Voiceover
Equipment Recording Studio Specialized mics (Rode NTG2 shotgun mic and pistol grip, Beyerdynamic m58) Hindenburg Journalist Pro Zoom H5 FujiFilm X100T Camera
Previous Work Public Historian at Lakewood Cemetery KFAI-FM at Underwriting Manager
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^ Jump up to: a b "Kate Thornton. Biography, news, photos and videos" . Hello Magazine . Retrieved 8 October 2020 .
^ Can 'Smash Hits' survive the end of Take That? by Andy Beckett The Independent – Sunday 18 February 1996
^ About Smash Hits! Archived 2 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Smash Hits Pop Channel website
^ Jump up to: a b c Kate Thornton CV at Troika Talent PDF file accessed September 2011
^ Kate Thornton: Single motherhood, guilt and why she worries about Kate Middleton, Interview by Marianne Kavanagh .
^ West, Gillian (8 March 2013). "Boots UK launches radio and online programme hosted by Kate Thornton" . The Drum . Retrieved 11 March 2013 .
^ Julia Llewellyn Smith (2 January 2016). "TV presenter Kate Thornton's new venture that could save you money" . The Daily Telegraph .
^ "Cashback Site TBSeen Goes Into Administration" . Skint Dad . 5 November 2018 . Retrieved 5 November 2018 .
^ "iTunesCharts.net: 'White Wine Question Time' by Yahoo! UK (British Podcasts iTunes Chart)" . www.itunescharts.net . Retrieved 28 June 2019 .
^ "Yahoo UK launches new series: Up Close and Socially Distant" . www.inpublishing.co.uk . Retrieved 28 June 2020 .
^ Melanie Swan. Joy of X . The People. 29 October 2006.
^ McGrath, Nick (29 December 2019). "Kate Thornton: For a loose woman, I'm obsessed with saving" . Retrieved 4 January 2020 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
^ "Axed Kate Goes Back To School" . HuffPost UK . 10 January 2012.
^ Doug Rittenhouse (2003). Behind The Movies - Top Gun (Television production). VH1 . Event occurs at 40:34 . Retrieved 9 August 2019 .
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Kate Thornton (born 7 February 1973) [1] is an English journalist and radio & television presenter, best known as the first presenter of The X Factor (2004–2006) and for presenting daytime shows including Loose Women (2009–2011) and This Morning (2009–2012). In 2010, she co-presented the first series of 71 Degrees North alongside Gethin Jones .
In 1995, she became the first female and youngest ever editor of pop magazine Smash Hits at age 22, producing her first issue in February 1996 covering the breakup of boy-band Take That . [2] She left a year later, having been unable to prevent a further slide in sales of the magazine. [3] In 1997, she became a Features Editor at the Sunday Times , a post she held until 2001, and also a contributing Editor for magazine Marie Claire , in which position she continued until 2003. [4]
Whilst undertaking these new editorial roles, Thornton began a second career in television. In February 1997, Thornton was given her first TV presenting job, on the ITV current affairs programme Straight Up . She was tasked with putting together a photo tribute with music for Princess Diana on the day of her death. In an interview in March 2011, Thornton said: "...because it was a Sunday, the music library was shut and the only thing I had in my car, the only piece of music that was appropriate was " Candle in the Wind " from Elton John 's greatest hits." Colleagues attributed the subsequent airplay and then the re-recording of the song to this event. Thornton is quoted as having been doubtful initially, but later having come to accept the possibility: "I never dared to assume for one minute that I was the link. But Nick Knowles (co-presenter on the show) has convinced me that whatever came as a result of it was all down to me." [5]
Thornton was the first presenter of the UK series of The X Factor . She presented three series of the show from 2004 until 2006 before being replaced by Dermot O'Leary . Thornton later anchored ITV's daytime series Loose Women , in rotation with Andrea McLean . She presented 233 episodes of the show from 2009 until 2011. She was replaced by Carol Vorderman . [ citation needed ]
Thornton was a regular stand-in presenter on This Morning and in 2010, she co-presented the first series of 71 Degrees North alongside Gethin Jones . Neither returned for the second series. In 2010, she narrated The Nation's Favourite Abba Song . Thornton also presented A Night with Will Young in 2011. She guest presented six episodes of Lorraine in 2012.
Thornton also presented Gravity Games for BBC Two , Women: The Naked Truth Honest for Channel 4 and Breasts Uncupped for Sky1 . [4]
Thornton has presented a number of programmes for BBC Radio 2 since 2002. Along with presenting, Thornton was also the writer of the radio documentary From Band to Brand in 2004, and the creator of the radio series Line of Enquiry , inviting an audience to put questions to a number of celebrities, which began in 2007. [4]
From 10 March until 28 April 2013, Thornton presented The Boots Feel Good Forum , a radio show dedicated to health and fitness, which aired on Real Radio and Smooth Radio . [6]
Since 2014, Thornton has presented Paper Cuts , a radio series for BBC Radio 2 , She joined Greatest Hits Radio on 26th February 2022 and has replaced Darren Proctor on Saturday nights.
Thornton launched cashback site TBSeen in January 2016, [7] along with TV presenters Myleene Klass , Amanda Byram and Denise Van Outen , celebrity chef Lisa Faulkner , actresses Tamzin Outhwaite , Julie Graham and singers Heidi Range and the band All Saints , Nicole Appleton , Natalie Appleton , Mel Blatt and Shaznay Lewis . TBSeen entered administration in September 2018. [8]
Thornton hosted the live Strictly Come Dancing tour in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. She also voiced the role of the red carpet presenter in the UK Version of Shrek 2 . [ citation needed ]
Kate currently hosts Yahoo! podcast White Wine Question Time where she asks three friends, three questions over three bottles of wine. Guests have included Jo Joyner , Nadia Sawalha , Malin Andersson , Leigh Francis , Angela Griffin and Amanda Holden . The podcast first aired in December 2018. [9] During lockdown, she also created and hosted Up Close And Socially Distant, a video series for Yahoo!, where she chatted over the phone to famous faces, front line workers and those leading initiatives to help serve the community during lockdown. [10] The show ran for nine weeks.
Thornton began dating DJ Darren Emerson in 2004. [11] The couple became engaged in 2007. She gave birth to her first child, a boy named Ben on 13 May 2008. [12] On 3 February 2011, she announced live on air that she and Emerson had separated. [ citation needed ]
In January 2012, Thornton said that after leaving Loose Women she had enrolled at college to study counselling because her television career had "hit the kerb". [13]
She has been in a relationship with construction worker Mat Vincent since 2013.
Countdown to Midnight: Take That Live
Presenter of special segment on Smash Hits
4 series (2014–2016) Christmas Special (2019)
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