Kathleen Blake "Kit" Coleman (born Catherine Ferguson, 20 February 1856 – 16 May 1915) was an Irish-Canadian newspaper columnist.

The strongest influence on her intellectual life came from her uncle Thomas Nicholas Burke, a Dominican priest and a renowned liberal and orator, who taught her religious and social tolerance, an attitude that was reflected in her journalism as an adult.

[5] In 1889, following the death of Watkins, or more probably, their divorce,[3] Coleman first turned to cleaning houses to support herself and her two children, then began writing articles for local magazines, mainly Toronto's Saturday Night.

[1] Her column was so outspoken that it attracted a wide following, including Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.

[3] Kathleen Blake Watkins increasingly began to write columns covering areas in the mainstream news, and soon became one of the Mail's star reporters.

However, she was told by her supervisors to write features and "guff," as she called it, not the news from the front, apparently believing that this would not be appropriate for a woman.

Her accounts of the aftermath of the war and of its human casualties were the peak of her journalism career and made her famous.

On her way back to Canada, Kathleen stopped in Washington where she addressed the International Press Union of Women Journalists.

[5] Many other woman journalists, including her Mail and Empire colleague Katherine Hale (Amelia Beers Warnock), viewed Coleman as a pioneer and a role model, and the suffragists among them hoped that she would become an activist for the women's suffrage cause.

In 2023, the Royal Canadian Mint released both a silver dollar[10] and a 99.99% pure gold coin[11] to commemorate the 125th anniversary of her status as North America's first accredited female war correspondent.