Cate
Barron

Cate Barron was born in Lewistown, PA. She graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor's in English and from Penn State with a Master's in American Studies. She started her career as the news director at WMRF-FM in Lewistown. Three years later, she joined the Lewistown Sentinel as a reporter.  In 1985, she moved to the Patriot in Harrisburg as an editor in the Lebanon bureau.

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During the next 25 years, she served as an assistant city editor, Sunday editor, assignment editor and managing editor. In 2012, she became editor of the Patriot-News, and in 2019 after years of hard work, she was named the president of the PA Media Group.