Natalie Brunell | |
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| Born | November 4, 1986 |
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| Notable work | Career Stories podcast |
| Political party | Independent |
Natalie Brunell is a Polish-American television news reporter, investigative journalist, podcast host and educator. As of 2020, she is senior correspondent and investigative reporter for Spectrum News 1 LA as well as Adjunct Instructor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.[1][2] She hosts the Career Stories podcast.[3]
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Early Life
editNatalie was born in Lodz, Poland before the fall of the Soviet Union. She and her parents emigrated to the United States when she was 5 years old.[1] Her family took up residence in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She attended Pepperdine University where she double-majored in Journalism and Italian.Cite error: The <ref> tag name cannot be a simple integer (see the help page). Following college she worked at Creative Artists Agency then attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Career
editIn 2012, Natalie was CNN's Master News Fellow in Los Angeles. She then became an investigative reporter and fill-in anchor at KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, CA and a reporter at KCRA-TV in Sacramento, CA.[4] In 2018 she became national correspondent for ABC News based in Los Angeles and in 2019 investigator for Spectrum News.
Awards
editIn 2016 Natalie was nominated for an Emmy Award for her an investigative report titled "Scandal at City Hall".[5]. The same year, she was part of Emmy Award-winning investigative team at KESQ for Breaking News Coverage.[citation needed] She was a finalist for a National Press Club award for an interview of Maz Jobrani.[6]
In 2014, Natalie was the winner of the "Dancing with the Desert Stars" competition in Palm Springs.[7]
See Also
edit- "Career Stories with Natalie Brunell" podcast at Apple Podcasts
References
edit- ^ a b Bender, Aron. "Natalie Brunell: reporter with Spectrum News 1 SoCal, podcaster, pioneer". Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "USC Faculty Website". Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "Career Stories". Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "Ad Week". Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "2016 Emmy Nominations" (PDF). Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "NAEJ Finalists" (PDF). Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- ^ "Desert Stars". Retrieved 16 January 2020.