Katie Thornton

A story-driven historical documentary uncovering why the Twin Cities’ skyway systems aren’t just intriguing cold-weather designs—they’re also an architecture of literal and figurative division that many feel segregate our downtowns and harm the streets below.

A 40 minute documentary explaining why this South Minneapolis apartment building used to be called “The Infantorium,” and how premature babies and the incubators that kept them alive were amusement park sideshows for over four decades.

Winner of a Minnesota SPJ Award, my independently researched, written, edited, and produced audio documentary tells stories of the intersections—and shortcomings—of Minnesota’s women’s suffrage and temperance movements. The 45-minute doc uses the stories of women from 100 years ago to show how Minnesota’s temperance movement set the stage for its women’s suffrage movement. But it also shows how white temperance leaders—and, by proxy, many early white suffragists—failed to engage working class, immigrant, Black, and Native women.

My five-part series with WNYC's On the Media. About how one side of the political spectrum came to dominate talk radio—and how one company is building a right wing media empire from the airwaves.