Keynote Speaker: Natalie Kitroeff (Mexico City bureau chief for The New York Times)
Natalie is the Mexico City Bureau Chief for The New York Times, leading their coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
What Natalie Covers
Natalie's beat encompasses a vast region that includes Mexico and more than a dozen countries in Central America and the Caribbean. She's always trying to find ways to bring readers into these worlds, with stories that reflect the biggest moments in politics, culture and economic life in these places, while also going deep on investigations that uncover the inner workings of institutions that operate in secrecy.
She loves breaking news and revealing facts that governments, businesses and powerful people want to keep hidden. That often requires months of gathering documents, gaining the trust of sources with direct knowledge of the issue and getting as much on-the-record response as possible from the key players involved.
She's written about allegations that the Guatemalan president received a bribe of cash rolled up into a carpet and has pored over 23,000 unpublished text messages between cartel members and the authorities responsible for the abduction and massacre of 43 students in Mexico. She's told the story of a mother in Haiti who tried to save her child from the gang wars, and a mother in El Salvador who supports the president responsible for jailing her son.
Background
Before moving to Mexico, Natalie worked on The Times business desk in New York, covering everything from the Boeing 737 Max crashes to pregnancy discrimination to the economy under President Donald J. Trump. She previously worked as a reporter at Bloomberg and The Los Angeles Times. She has an undergraduate degree in public policy from Princeton University, grew up outside Philadelphia and roots for the Philadelphia Eagles (go birds!).
Journalistic Ethics
Natalie is committed to protecting her sources, rigorously fact checking her stories, and tries to hear out every side of every issue. She corrects errors, does not participate in politics or make political donations and gives those involved in any story the chance to respond to the reports before publication.
Price: $95