Cathy Dawes
News Director

Cathy Dawes is currently news director at Manhattan Broadcasting (KMAN and three other stations) since December of 2001.  She has also been news reporter/anchor/director at radio stations in Jacksonville, FL; Oklahoma City; Peoria, IL; and in Kansas in Atchison, Hiawatha, and Lawrence, over a 20 year time period.  Cathy has served as President-elect of the Associated Press Board-Kansas Broadcasters in the mid-1980's and from 2003-2004.

Cathy is a mother of four with the youngest currently attending Kansas State.  She is very excited that she will be a grandmother very soon.  Cathy also stays very active in the Manhattan area, as she is involved in her church, PEO, and numerous singing activities.  She is a member of the Wamego Dutch Mill Sweet Adelines chorus, Harmonious Synergy quartet, and the choir at First United Methodist Church in Manhattan.

Recent Awards:
Kansas Association of Broadcasters      
First Place: News series (Catholics in Crisis), 2002      
First Place: Complete newscast, 2003
First Place, News Series (The Journey Home) regarding returning soldiers from Iraq, 2006

Associated Press    
First Place Best Newscast, 2003, 2004, and 2005      
Edward R. Murrow Award Region 5 News Series "Child Abuse", 2005;            
News Series "The Journey Home", 2006

K.C. Press Club      
Gold award for Child Abuse Series, 2005      
Gold award for Newscast, 2005