Kate Roberts Edenborg is a professor and the program director for the professional communication and emerging media degree at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She teaches journalism and media courses and also mentors students. Edenborg pursues grants that allow her pay students to intern for non-community news outlets and collaborates with community members. She also was previously the faculty advisor for the campus news source, the Stoutonia.
Before she came to UW-Stout, Edenborg worked as the patient education communication specialist for Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota. She also worked as an editor and reporter for a variety of publications, including the two metropolitan newspapers (Minnestota Tribune and St. Paul Pioneer Press) in the Twin Cities. Edenborg was also the assistant news editor for the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald.
Her academic research focuses on journalism history with particular emphasis on how people, ideas, and concepts have been represented by images, text, and other symbols in mass media throughout American history. She is also very interested in health communication.
Edenborg is originally from Menomonie and loves reading non-fiction and going to concerts, especially indie/alt-country/retro type bands and singers.