Kathryn Williams
Kathryn Williams turns entertainment and lifestyle coverage into practical, locally rooted guides that connect big shows, everyday treats and Welsh culture. She is What's On and Lifestyle Editor at WalesOnline, overseeing content that spans entertainment, television, film, music, celebrity, food and shopping.
What's on, television and entertainment
Her entertainment coverage is built around helping readers navigate what to watch and where to go, rather than just reporting industry news. She regularly curates and oversees pieces on television and film being made in Wales, such as roundups of current productions that also invite readers to share filming activity they spot in their neighbourhoods.
Her work treats TV and film both as cultural touchpoints and as things happening on readers’ doorsteps, combining behind-the-scenes curiosity with practical information on locations and schedules. She also covers major live events, including concerts at large stadiums, with pieces that explain the impact of shows on transport and local streets rather than focusing solely on the performance itself.
Food, drink and going out
Food and drink are a core part of her beat, with coverage that highlights independent venues and niche offerings through clear, service-led guides.
She has written about dairy-free desserts in Cardiff, turning what could be a niche dietary concern into an accessible list of places where readers can find specific treats. She also compiles roundups of coffee shops, spotlighting independent businesses through curated lists of best-in-category venues. These pieces often blend lifestyle tone with concrete details - locations, specialties, and reasons to visit - so they function as both recommendations and practical tools for planning days out.
Her role includes overseeing shopping and affiliate content, and she uses that to link lifestyle coverage with specific products, offers and venues in a way that fits with the wider “what’s on” agenda.
Service guides and event logistics
Williams distinguishes herself from a generic entertainment reporter through consistent attention to the practical impact of leisure and entertainment on everyday life. Her coverage of major concerts, such as high-profile shows at the Principality Stadium, focuses on road closures, timings and access routes so readers can understand how the event will affect their journeys and plans. She approaches these pieces as guides rather than promotional material, setting out clear, usable information around closures, transport changes and nearby facilities. The same service instinct appears in her “what’s on” coverage, where listings and previews are framed around how and when readers can attend, how much it will cost, and what they can expect when they arrive.
That emphasis on logistics and planning makes her work particularly relevant when a story involves large-scale events, venue operations or changes that affect how people move around and spend their time.
Real-life features and community focus
Alongside entertainment and lifestyle, she has a long track record of features rooted in everyday Welsh life and local communities. Her earlier work includes pieces on traditional markets and their evolution, such as coverage of Pontypridd indoor market and its redevelopment as The Market Quarter, which treats traders and shoppers as central characters in a wider economic story. She has written about niche topics like the rise of statement socks for businesspeople, using local manufacturers as examples to show how style trends intersect with regional industry.
Williams has also produced nostalgic television features, such as revisiting the Welsh soap Taff Acre and inviting readers to share their memories, reinforcing the two-way relationship between her coverage and her audience. Several of her articles explicitly ask readers to email with tips, sightings or recommendations - whether for filming projects, dairy-free treats or personal recollections - showing a consistent habit of building stories with input from the community.
Over more than a decade on lifestyle and entertainment and a prior decade as a news reporter, she has developed a niche in reporting that treats local culture, habits and venues as serious subjects, recognised in part by a Reporting Communities award at the Regional Press Awards in 2020.
Across thousands of published pieces, her work is distinguished by the way it blends entertainment, lifestyle and real-life reporting into usable guides that readers can act on. She is a strong fit for stories that need both cultural context and concrete details - especially those involving television and film in Wales, local food and drink, venue-focused features, and the logistics of major public events.
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