 Reporter Karen Massie joined News10 in December, 1987. Although she is a general assignment reporter for News10 and covers a wide variety of news stories, her specialty is educational issues.
Karen has been honored with a number of industry awards including a Best of the West Award, an Associated Press Best Live News Report, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Best Spot News and a Radio and Television News Directors Association Award for Best Live Report.
In 2003, News10 won the John Swett Award for media excellence from the California Teachers Association for Karen's work on the Teacher of the Month series.
Before joining News10, Karen worked for WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio, where she spent five years anchoring morning and noon newscasts. She has similar experience at WHIO radio and TV in Dayton, Ohio.
Karen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Ohio State University. She also attended University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where she majored in Opera.
Karen is a member of the Sacramento Black Journalists Association, the Ohio State University Alumni Association for Northern California, National Association of Black Journalists, the New Testament Baptist Church and the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA).
As an active community member, Karen has a wide range of hobbies. She gets involved in local telethons, directs two gospel choirs, sings with a third, and races Formula Ford racing cars. She is currently the only black woman in the United States driving an open-wheel, open cockpit car. She began driving Formula Ford race cars in 1995, and won the Solo I Time Trials that same year.
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