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= Katherine Ann Rowlands = Katherine Ann Rowlands (ca. 1966-) is president of Bay City News Service and executive director of the Bay City News Foundation.

A native of Berkeley, she has degrees from Macalester College, the London School of Economics and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She started as an intern at BCN in 1986, and was the East Bay Metro Editor for the Bay Area News Group, which included the Oakland Tribune and the Contra Costa Times, as well as editor in chief of Diablo Magazine. She has also been president of the Journalism and Women Symposium, a national group that supports women in the field.

She had been studying sustainable models for local journalism at Stanford University, as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow, when Bay City News came up for sale in 2017. It struck her as a unique opportunity to try some new models for journalism, while also pursuing her goal of increasing the number of women in newsroom leadership. "During my career, I’d seen how few women make it to the top of news organizations," she told the Quill (Society of Professional Journalists). "I spent some time studying this problem and looking for solutions." After the purchase, Rowlands converted BCN into a hybrid for-profit, regional wire service with a nonprofit foundation that operates a free local news site, LocalNewsMatters.com, and provides paid internships for young journalists.