Katelyn Umholtz

Katelyn Umholtz covers the Greater Boston restaurant industry for Boston.com. She reports on a wide range of topics, from industry news and restaurant openings to the mysterious disappearance of the Cool Dog (a hot dog-shaped ice cream) and explainers on New Haven’s apizza versus pizza. When Katelyn isn’t telling stories about Greater Boston’s restaurant scene, you can likely find her participating in her favorite hobby: eating and drinking at the area’s excellent restaurants and bars. Katelyn joined Boston.com in 2023 after moving from New Orleans.

Katelyn hails from Savannah, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia’s journalism school. Before writing about restaurants in Boston, Katelyn worked as an editor at New Orleans’ NPR affiliate station, covered breaking news for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, and started her career as an education reporter in Georgia.

Katelyn was part of the Murrow Award-winning team at WWNO, the local NPR affiliate in New Orleans, for their Hurricane Ida coverage in 2021. During her time as a New Orleans breaking news reporter, largely covering crime and the pandemic, she was part of a team of Times-Picayune reporters who received a Green Eyeshade Award for breaking news coverage of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse in 2019.

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