In The Press
Karla published her first story for Shape.com, “Why runDisney Races Are Such A Big Deal.” From costumes to characters to incredible schwag, find out why these events are insanely popular—and controversial. February 22, 2013
Competitor.com included Karla in their Top 10 Most Magical Disney Running Costumes slideshow. February 20, 2014
Karla was interviewed in an episode of Hawaiian Xtreme Sports about the Kaua’i Marathon on Universal Sports. Karla ran and covered the 2013 Kaua’i Half Marathon. December 2, 2013
ESPN2 aired as part of the national broadcast of the 2013 ING New York City Marathon a story that Karla reported. Karla interviewed runner Bryan Steinhauer before and after the 2013 NYC Half and 2013 ING New York City Marathon as part of the piece, and wrote much of the voiceover seen on air. November 3, 2013
Karla hosted “On The Run at the ING New York City Marathon” for New York Road Runners with Olympians and commentators Tim Hutchings and Carrie Tollefson. Karla filmed six episodes around the race, interviewing professional athletes like Geoffrey Mutai and Meb Keflezighi, celebrities like Bill Rancic and Dean Karnazes and running legends like Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers and Joan Benoit Samuelson. October 30-November 4, 2013
Karla appeard on ABC7 in New York on “Countdown to the Starting Line,” a 30-minute special previewing the 2013 ING New York City Marathon. Karla appeared in a segment with Rob Powers highlighting the professional field of athletes. More than 300,000 people watched the special, twice the number of any other broadcast show in the same time slot. November 2, 2013
TheBigRoundtable.com and TheWeek.com published Karla’s story “The Man That Wasn’t,” a long-form narrative non-fiction piece about the life and death of her father. TheWeek.com chose it as their top “Must Click” of the weekend. October 31, 2013
Cision named Karla one of the Top 10 Jogging and Running Bloggers on Twitter based on Cision’s “proprietary research” and ranked by Klout score. June 6, 2013

Karla filmed three episodes of On The Run at NYC Half with Olympians Carrie Tollefson, Todd Williams, and WABC-TV sports anchor Rob Powers, some of which aired on ABC in New York. Karla profiled local runners and anchored the race-day recap. March 2013

Karla filmed three episodes of On The Run before the cancellation of the 2012 ING New York City Marathon, interviewing professional athletes like Meb Keflezighi, Edna Kiplagat, and Wilson Kipsang, celebrity runners like Joe Bastianich and Jared Fogle, and industry luminaries like Tom Grilk, Executive Director of the Boston Athletic Association. October 31-November 3, 2012.







The Marathon Show on BlogTalkRadio and iTunes interviewed Karla at the 2012 Tinker Bell Half Marathon at Disneyland in California. February 1, 2012
Runner’s World‘s Training Daily blog chose to follow Karla on a Holiday Running Streak. RW followed up with her two weeks in. November 24, 2011 and December 7, 2011
Karla sang the national anthem at the inaugural Brooklyn Marathon, organized by NYCRUNS. November 20, 2011
RunningTrax chose Karla as editor and face of What is RunningTrax? August 2011
Runner’s World‘s RW Daily devoted a post to Karla’s article, Ben & Jerry’s Schweddy Balls has runners giddy. September 13, 2011
Runner’s World‘s Racing News blog highlighted and quoted Karla’s article, Do women-only running races still matter? June 30, 2011
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New York Road Runners asked Karla to sing the National Anthem at the 40th running of the NYRR New York Mini 10K, the world’s first women-only road race. June 11, 2011
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Karla moderated a panel at the JackRabbit NYC Running show called NYC Running Scene. She lead a discussion with local running luminaries on how runners in NYC can expand their horizons. April 23, 2011
Karla moderated a Social Media Week panel in NYC called The Social Runner featuring New York Road Runner’s Social Media Manager, Sean Haubert, NYCRUNS founder, Steve Lastoe, and running blogger Kai MacMahon, better known as IdiotRunner. February 10, 2011
The Marathon Show on BlogTalkRadio and iTunes named Karla one of The Most Interesting People of 2010. December 20, 2010
Karla sang “America the Beautiful” to start the professional women’s and wheelchair competitions at the 2010 ING New York City Marathon. November 7, 2010
Karla appeared on The Marathon Show on BlogTalkRadio and iTunes to talk about the New York City Marathon and announce that New York Road Runners tapped her to sing at the start. October 19, 2010
The Baltimore Sun “Exercists” fitness blog wrote a post about Karla’s column, NYC marathon: When right goes wrong. October 30, 2010
The New York Times “On the Run” blog quoted Karla and linked to her column, New York City Marathon: The Agony and the Ecstasy. October 13, 2010
Runner’s World online published What if? What I learned from Bernard Lagat, Karla’s essay about running and regrets at the Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile. October 1, 2010
New York Road Runner’s asked Karla to sing the national anthem at the Continental Airlines Fifth Avenue Mile. She sang at the event three years running: 2009, 2010, and 2011. September 26, 2010
Karla appeared as a guest on The Marathon Show on BlogTalkRadio and iTunes. During the hour-long interview, she talked about covering elite marathoners, how to be a successful running blogger, the 2010 Olympics and much more. July 27, 2010
New York Road Runners featured Karla’s band The FADES in their video for NYRR’s Annual Father’s Day Race Against Prostate Cancer Presented by ABC7. The Fades played the post-race festival in Central Park and were featured on “Running” on the YES Network. June 20, 2010
New York Road Runners featured Run, Karla, Run and Karla’s band The FADES on their website for the NYRR’s Annual Father’s Day Race Against Prostate Cancer Presented by ABC7 post-race festival. June 20, 2010
Throughout the first week of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Karla appeared on “America’s Morning News,” a nationally syndicated talk show on the Talk Radio Network with over 3 million listeners, as well as “Good Morning San Diego” on KSUI TV in San Diego as an Olympic correspondent. February 2010
The Washington Times chose Karla as one of two reporters to send to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She covered figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding, hockey, curling, skiing and opening and closing ceremonies via features, profiles, news reports, profiles and more. February 2010
Brooks Running mentioned Karla’s list of The Best Runners of the Decade in The Brooks Blog. February 1, 2010
Fox Sports online highlighted Karla’s list of The Best Runners of the Decade on their The Decade in Review. December 2009
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced the launch of “Run, Karla, Run!” on The Washington Times Communities. November 19, 2009
RunKarlaRun.com is born! October 2009
“Run, Karla, Run!” at The Washington Times Communities makes its debut. October 2009
Karla was a student speaker at Journalism in the Service of Democracy: A Summit of Deans, Faculty, Students and Journalists at The Paley Center for Media. She spoke about being a News21 Fellow. January 8-9, 2008
The PBS blog Mediashift interviewed Karla about News21, and highlighted her multimedia story One in a Million: Hispanic Clergy in the Catholic Church as a “standout” of the News21 project. September 12, 2007
The Religion Newswriters Association named Karla one of 10 national finalists for the Chandler Award for Student Writer of the Year. September 2007
The Fulbright Commission awarded Karla with a Fulbright scholarship to the Berlin Capital Program for young American journalists. December 2006
Karla published her first professional clip in Newsweek’s International Edition. May 2006
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