Kristin McHugh is the owner and president of Laundry List Media.  Prior to this position, McHugh was a program officer and senior radio producer for the Stanley Foundation in Muscatine, Iowa.  McHugh holds a B.A. in communications/broadcast journalism from the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). She began her radio career with a volunteer news position at KUNI, the public radio station operated by UNI, and later worked as a reporter and announcer for four commercial radio stations in Iowa. She has reported from Cambodia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kosovo, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Serbia, Thailand, Uganda, and United Arab Emirates.

McHugh was co-host and producer for the Stanley Foundation's nationally distributed weekly public radio program Common Ground from 1999-2004.  McHugh served as a correspondent for the award-winning radio documentary "The Russia Project" (2001).  She also served as project manager and segment correspondent for the 2003 award-winning radio documentary "Children of War: Fighting, Dying, Surviving." She coproduced and reported for the award-winning radio documentaries "UNder Fire: The United Nations' Battle for Relevance" (2004); “Security Check: Confronting Today's Global Threats" (2005); “24/7: The Rise and Influence of Arab Media” (2006); and “Beyond Fear: America’s Role in an Uncertain World” (2007).  She most recently coproduced and reported for the radio projects “Brazil Rising” (2008) and "India Rising" (2009).

McHugh has earned dozens of awards for news coverage. Her 2002 story "Kosovo's Pied Piper: The Liz Shropshire Story" won the RFK Journalism Award, a National Headliner citation, and was a finalist for the 2003 Harry Chapin Media Award. McHugh was also a finalist for the 2001 and 2002 Livingston Award for Young Journalists and one of five finalists for the first-ever Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize honoring individual news work of significance and quality by a journalist age 35 or younger in public radio. Her work has also received honors from the United Nations Correspondents Association, the Association for Women in Communications, the American Women in Radio and Television, the Society of Professional Journalists, and three consecutive honors from the National Press Club for diplomatic reporting. McHugh is a former president of the Iowa Associated Press Broadcasters and the Iowa Broadcast News Association.