Katya Wachtel is an intern at the Huffington Post. She graduated with a Masters in Science from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and is currently completing a Master of Arts in Political Journalism at the J-school.

She lives in New York, but calls Melbourne - Australia, not Florida - home.

Blog Entries by Katya Wachtel

Morgan Stanley CEO Calls for More Regulation of Wall Street at Vanity Fair-Bloomberg Event

1 Comments | Posted November 18, 2009 | 10:22 PM (EST)


At a Vanity Fair and Bloomberg event in Manhattan on Wednesday night, audience members were delighted by an impromptu ( and slightly coerced) appearance by Morgan Stanley CEO, John Mack, who called for far more stringent policing of Wall Street.

Mack, sitting inconspicuously amongst a crowd of business journos...

Read Post

HuffPo Review: Nick Hornby's, Juliet, Naked

Posted October 21, 2009 | 02:27 PM (EST)


It begins with a dank, grimy toilet. Well, a camera and a toilet. And of the two people standing beside the stained porcelain, only one of them wants to be there. The woman taking the photograph -- she definitely does not. But she's doing it for the man who is...

Read Post

Electro En Masse, Arrives in New York: Electric Zoo 2009

3 Comments | Posted October 5, 2009 | 12:02 AM (EST)


26,000 electronic music fans gathered at Randall's Island Park over the Labor Day weekend for the inaugural Electric Zoo Music Festival, the first get-together of its kind in New York -- a city used to seeing rock and folk bands descend on its various stages for festivals like All...

Read Post

HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

2 Comments | Posted August 17, 2009 | 12:52 PM (EST)


As a journalist in Afghanistan, or Pakistan... Or Iraq. Or any other war-ravaged land where you don't speak the language, let alone the dialect of the region in which you're expected to unearth and unravel a never-before-told story, there is only one way to get that story: you hire a...

Read Post

HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi

33 Comments | Posted July 20, 2009 | 12:26 PM (EST)


In 1954, Charleston High School was ordered, like every other school in the country, to desegregate. Integration was instantaneous at some schools, happened a year or two later at others, and then, of course, there were determined stragglers; schools that used the Supreme Court's 1955 declaration of desegregation at "all...

Read Post