Kathy Kiely

Kathy Kiely is the Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. Her career as a journalist spanned more than four decades, mostly in Washington (where she frequently using the Senate Historian's Office as an invaluable source!). Kiely covered regional and national politics for a number of news outlets, including USA TODAY, the New York Daily News, the Houston Post, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Press. She served as an editor for WAMU, Bill Moyers, the Sunlight Foundation, Bloomberg Politics and helped coordinate the National Journal's campaign coverage with CBS News. She also served on the Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents and on the boards of the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Daily Princetonian. She holds a master's degree from American University and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University.