User:Bakerstmd/Natalie Brunell

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. She hosts the Career Stories podcast.

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Early Life
Natalie 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. Her family took up residence in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She attended Pepperdine University where she double-majored in Journalism and Italian. Following college she worked at Creative Artists Agency then attended the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Career
In 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. In 2018 she became national correspondent for ABC News based in Los Angeles and in 2019 investigator for Spectrum News.

Awards
In 2016 Natalie was nominated for an Emmy Award for her an investigative report titled "Scandal at City Hall". . The same year, she was part of Emmy Award-winning investigative team at KESQ for Breaking News Coverage. She was a finalist for a National Press Club award for an interview of Maz Jobrani.

In 2014, Natalie was the winner of the "Dancing with the Desert Stars" competition in Palm Springs.