Thanks for taking the time to write!

I can’t tell you how much it means to me to receive email and letters from viewers who watched me years ago in other markets. I recently received a card from a viewer during my time at KABC, and also, an email from someone in Memphis, when I worked at WREG.

Housing Crisis – a disaster I reported would happen in 2005

While I was perhaps the only reporter in the Los Angeles market who reported on the imminent decline in the housing market, this is one of a few times I could say I wished I had been wrong. When everyone else was reporting about the “great housing market,” I did a story that was the [...]

WEBSITE DESIGN: I don’t know a ton, but enough to get by…

I suppose all of this started when I was in the fourth grade, and I successfully hooked up our first-ever VCR to the television and made it work.  Nowadays, that may not seem like a big feat, but back then, technology wasn’t what it was today and by most accounts, it was pretty awesome a [...]

Karen Carlson – the Reason I’m leaving ABC Channel 4

It’s with a heavy heart I announce I will only remain at Channel 4 until the end of the year.  Though the station has given me a generous offer to extend my contract for an additional three years, my husband and I have decided it’s in the best interest of our growing family to move [...]

Karen Carlson & Lunatic Fringe Fundraiser

Despite the down economy Lunatic Fringe Salons in partnership with Paul Mitchell the School, Salt Lake raise $75,000 for a collection of charities including The Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation, Food 4 Africa, Children’s Miracle Network and more… Thursday, May 13th, 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah – May 13, 2010, Lunatic Fringe Salons concluded their three [...]

Laura Hadley, Karen Carlson & Ashley Peterson

Laura Hadley, Karen Carlson & Ashley Peterson at Utah’s Finest Under 40 banquet.

Karen Carlson: pictures from Utah’s Finest Under 40 banquet

I received some pictures today from the organizers at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which recently honored my fundraising efforts.   In addition to being one of only eight people in the state of Utah to be recognized, I was also awarded with the Spirit Award, which is given to the person who writes how fundraising [...]

So the backstory to this Deputy story

So, not doing your job was one thing. Not being courageous is another. But to make your bosses put out a press release and talk about what a hero you are is not much short of disgraceful, not only for yourself, but for your department.

One of my favorite KABC stories – printed in the Los Angeles Times

After hearing reports of the deputy’s actions on television, however, neighbors told KABC reporter Karen Carlson that the deputy was making it all up.

Sheriff’s officials would not say exactly what prompted them to launch an investigation. But KABC News Director Cheryl Fair said Carlson became suspicious about the differing versions of the rescue and called the Sheriff’s Department the day after the fire to ask more questions about Martinez’s account.