Catherine Cruz
Host, The ConversationCatherine Cruz is the host of The Conversation and a member of HPR’s news team. She has been a television reporter in Hawaiʻi since 1983 and has won a number of awards and respect from a statewide audience. She spent more than 30 years at KITV, covering beats from government to education and health. Originally from Guam, Cruz is also a co-founder and former board member and programming chair of Pacific Islanders in Communication (PIC). Catherine is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in broadcast journalism.
Contact her at ccruz@hawaiipublicradio.org.
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In January, the FBI announced David Porter as the new special agent in charge of the Honolulu Field Office. The Conversation talked to him about some of the FBI's priorities. -
ASU Executive Vice President and University Provost Nancy Gonzales just wrapped up a visit to Hawaiʻi and stopped by our studio to talk about the connection between Hawaiʻi and ASU. -
Honolulu's new Special Agent in Charge discusses the priorities of the FBI under Trump; Pint + Jigger co-owner Dave Newman makes it to the final round of a new cocktail service category of the James Beard awards -
Today, the Conversation is revisiting interviews with the creators and performers in Cirque du Soleil's ʻAuana! -
Journalist Jean Lee is the East-West Center’s inaugural presidential chair and previously covered Korean politics as an Associated Press bureau chief. She was in Seoul covering the presidential election this week. -
On Wednesday, a crash involving a city bus and a pickup truck near the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport left more than a dozen injured. Dr. Jim Ireland, director of the Honolulu Emergency Services Department, recounted the event. -
Dr. Jim Ireland with Honolulu EMS discusses the response to a major crash between a city bus and a pick-up truck; South Korea has elected a new president months after the country faced a martial law crisis -
Keith Regan, the state comptroller at the Department of Accounting and General Services, has been tasked with taking over the project of fixing a leaky roof at the large events venue. -
New research looks into people's perception of driverless cars. Here to talk about that is contributing editor Neal Milner. -
The Conversation spoke to John De Fries, executive director of the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, about the National Science Foundation's cuts to the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea.
