Kelly Hatmaker
Kelly Hatmaker was named Assignment Editor at KMOX in September 2002 and was promoted to Managing Editor in 2003. Since joining the Voice of St. Louis, Hatmaker has shared two national Edward R. Murrow awards for continuing coverage and has earned individual journalism awards for series, documentary and newscast production.
Hatmaker began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter in New Hampshire out of high school, before going on to attend the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University. Hatmaker landed his first broadcast job at WSTM-TV in Syracuse, producing for the city’s top-rated morning news show. He went next to WDTV in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he was named Senior Producer, and later worked as a newscast and features producer at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut. Hatmaker first came to St. Louis in 1996, when he was hired by KSDK-TV as a newscast producer and was later named special projects producer. Hatmaker went on to work as Executive Producer of Special Projects at WBNS-TV, in Columbus, Ohio, where he shared the Child Welfare League of America’s Anna Quindlen Award for a documentary on youth violence.
