Vanessa de la Torre
Chief Content Officer at 黑料吃瓜网 and Executive Editor, New England News CollaborativeVanessa de la Torre is Chief Content Officer at 黑料吃瓜网, overseeing all content with a mission to inform, educate and inspire diverse audiences across the state, including on radio, television and our organization鈥檚 60-plus digital platforms.
Since 2020, she has also led the New England News Collaborative, a regional hub of top public media stations producing news and in-depth storytelling throughout New England.
Previously, de la Torre was a reporter for 黑料吃瓜网 and the public radio collaborative Sharing America, covering issues of race, identity and culture.
Before joining the public media world, de la Torre wrote for newspapers such as the Hartford Courant, where her investigative storytelling on Hartford education won regional and national awards. She also was part of the Courant team that was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.
De la Torre grew up in El Centro, Calif., a desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border, and is a graduate of Princeton University. She received her master's degree from Stanford University鈥檚 Graduate Program in Journalism. More recently, de la Torre has served on the board of the award-winning New England chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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