Katie Pavlich is the editor for Townhall.com and a former contributing editor to Townhall Magazine. As a Fox News contributor, Katie regularly joins special event coverage and serves as a rotating co-host on The Five. She has served as a guest host on Fox News Primetime, The Ingraham Angle, Hannity and Fox and Friends. She also hosts series programming and documentaries for Fox Nation. As a reporter, she has covered a variety of topics ranging from presidential and congressional elections to the White House, Department of Justice, Second Amendment, border issues, the ISIS genocide of Christians in the Middle East and more. In 2014, Katie reported on Operation Protective Edge from Israel. In 2017, she traveled to China with a delegation of journalists where she met with officials and spoke to university students about the importance of free speech. In 2019 and 2020, she traveled with the State Department to cover a series of diplomatic trips made by the Secretary of State. In July 2020, Katie interviewed President Donald Trump from the White House. Katie serves as a columnist for The Hill and previously for the Pittsburgh-Tribune.
Katie is the award winning author of Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women (Threshold Editions 2014) and the New York Times Best Seller Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up (Regnery 2012). In 2015, Katie hosted Outdoor Channel's first documentary Safe Haven: Gun Free Zones in America. She has also been interviewed for the History's Channel's America's Book of Secrets series. Most recently, she is the host of Luxury Hunting Lodges of America on Fox Nation.
Katie is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in broadcast journalism. She has completed fellowships with the National Review Institute, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She is a current member of the White House Correspondents Association.
Katie has shared her perspective on multiple media venues including, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox Business, in addition to a host of national and local radio shows. She has served as a fill-in host for conservative radio host Mark Levin and as a guest co-host for Washington DC’s largest morning politics show on WMAL. She is a regular speaker on college campuses across the country for Young America's Foundation and often participates in conference panels.
Katie serves as a board member for a number of non-profit organizations, including the National Journalism Center, a project of Young America's Foundation, and the Network of Enlightened Women. In 2015, Katie emceed the fifth annual Navy SEAL Legacy Foundation Gala in Dallas.
Katie grew up in the mountains of northern Arizona, rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, and hunting big game with her father in the forests and deserts that Barry Goldwater called home. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, spending time with her husband, her dog Gadsden, friends, family and the great outdoors. In 2019, she ran the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington D.C.
Fun facts: Katie has been to 47 of 50 U.S. states, 27 countries and five of seven continents. She made a cameo appearance in the first season of Amazon's #1 series: The Terminal List.
