Natalie Brunell

Natalie Brunell is a Polish-American podcast host, Bitcoin educator, media commentator and veteran broadcast news personality with a background in investigative journalism.

Early life
Natalie was born in Lodz, Poland and emigrated to the United States with her family when she was five years old. Her family took up residence in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. As a child, Natalie trained as a classical dancer and attended acting courses at TVI Studios in Chicago. She went to college at Pepperdine University where she double-majored in Broadcast Journalism and Italian Studies. Natalie helped launch the Italian Studies major at Pepperdine and was one of the first students to graduate with the degree. She spent four semesters living in Florence, Italy and worked at SeeTen, a bilingual production company that created travel, arts and cultural segments for Italian TV. Following college she worked at Creative Artists Agency then attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Career
Natalie worked as a freelance associate producer for CNN and as multimedia producer for Reuters TV. She worked for KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, California as MMJ and later as investigative reporter. Later, she joined KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. At KCRA, Natalie covered breaking news, enterprise reporting and features. In 2018, she worked as a national correspondent for ABC NewsOne based in Los Angeles. In February 2018, she launched the Career Stories podcast featuring one-on-one interviews with successful media personalities. In 2019 Natalie joined Spectrum News as a senior correspondent and investigative journalist.

She has received numerous awards for her investigative reporting.

Awards
In 2016 Natalie was nominated for a 'Best Investigative Series' Emmy Award for a six-month series titled "Scandal at City Hall". The same year, she was part of an Emmy Award-winning team at KESQ for Breaking News Coverage.

In 2019, Natalie won second place for 'Best One-on-One Interview' in the National Press Club's National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards for an interview with Maz Jobrani.