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Kathy Lohr began her journalism career in commercial television and radio as a reporter/anchor. She also became involved in video production for national corporations and taught courses in television reporting and radio production at universities in Kansas and Missouri. She has filed reports for the NPR documentary program, Horizons, the BBC, the CBC, Marketplace and she was published in the Saturday Evening Post. She was NPR's first reporter based in the Midwest. She opened NPR's St. Louis office in 1990 and the Atlanta bureau in 1996. She covers the abortion issue on an ongoing basis for NPR, including political and legal aspects. She filed her first report for NPR while working for member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Lohr has won the prestigious Missouri Medal of Honor for Excellence in Journalism in 2002. She received a fellowship from Vanderbilt University for work on the issue of domestic violence. She received other national awards for her coverage of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Midwestern floods of 1993 and for her reporting on ice storms in the Mississippi Delta. She also received numerous awards for radio pieces on the local level prior to joining NPR's national team. Lohr was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. She now lives in her adopted hometown of Atlanta. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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