Katelyn Ferral is a reporter on the investigations team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where her work is also regularly published in USA TODAY. She spent a month in February and March of this year in Poland along the Ukraine border documenting the refugee crisis and human toll of the Russian war in Ukraine for USA TODAY. She has reported extensively on the military and veterans affairs on the state and national level. She was named a Livingston Award finalist in 2022 for national reporting for her investigative work on the National Guard. She has also received the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award.
Before coming to the Journal Sentinel, she was the investigative reporter at The Cap Times in Madison, Wis. Prior to that she covered the energy industry at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and local government at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. She lives in Madison, Wis.