Katrina Kaufman is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker and lawyer who splits her time between New York City and Los Angeles.
She currently works at CBS News, where she is a campaign reporter focused on the trials of former President Donald Trump. She previously covered international and domestic affairs for CNN and BBC News.
At CNN, Katrina was nominated for a 2023 Emmy Award while producing for Fareed Zakaria GPS. She also worked with Reliable Sources, Erin Burnett OutFront and at CNN+, where she developed shows for Audie Cornish and Don Lemon.
Katrina started her career working on films like the Oscar-winning “Avatar” and "It's Complicated," but left Hollywood to return to her alma mater, Columbia University, for graduate work in journalism and law.
She holds a Masters degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on digital media production and developed a passion for news and documentary film. Concurrently, she earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia's Law School while specializing in issues of free expression, media and privacy law. She was also a research assistant for professor Tim Wu, a former Biden antitrust advisor.
After graduation she joined the digital news start-up Coconuts Media in Bangkok, Thailand as a Senior Producer and Legal Counsel. At Coconuts, she helped create and then lead the video department - Coconuts TV - while also acting as in-house legal counsel during Coconuts' aggressive expansion into neighboring markets (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines).
In her free time, she loves exploring the world, drawing, skiing, hiking and reading novels.
