Award-winning journalist Katrina Tulloch has been named editor-in-chief of This Is CNY. She has been a reporter, photographer, video editor and podcast producer at Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard for the last 10 years.
This Is CNY is a new digital publication from Advance Media New York which also publishes The Post-Standard, Syracuse.com, Central New York Magazine, and NYup. It’s a joint venture with CenterState CEO, the premier business leadership and economic development organization in Central New York.
It will serve as a resource for new and current residents seeking career opportunities, education and a high quality of life in the Syracuse area.
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The mission of This Is CNY is to elevate and celebrate the Central New York area, with focused coverage on regional growth in population, business, neighborhoods, housing, schools and culture.
In her new role, Tulloch will guide the visual and content direction of This Is CNY, write and edit stories and manage social media. Tulloch will also continue to serve as a senior video journalist for Syracuse.com projects.
Tulloch has won several awards for her journalism. In 2018, she swept first, second and third place for the state’s best arts and entertainment reporting at the New York AP Awards. She earned her first New York Emmy Award in 2019 as part of a team reporting project on a rogue AA group that encouraged dangerous practices to addicts in Syracuse. She was nominated for two more NY Emmys in 2022.
In 2023, she won the New York News Publishers Association’s Distinguished Multimedia Presentation award for a reporting package on the destruction of Syracuse’s 15th Ward. She served on The Post-Standard’s editorial board from 2020 to 2023.
Tulloch earned her master’s degree in journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2012 and her undergraduate degree in English from Allegheny College in 2011.
Since 2020, Tulloch has been the president of Syracuse Press Club and an adjunct professor of multimedia storytelling for SU’s online graduate program. She is a resident of Syracuse.