User:Gamaliel/Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab

Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab is a Mexican journalist. She and David Barstow won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their investigation of Walmart's widespread bribery in Mexico. She is the first Mexican woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.

Born Xanic Von Bertrab, she moved from Mexico City to Guadalajara at the age of 14. She studied communications at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education and was a university radio host.

After graduation, von Bertrab joined the newly-founded Guadalajara newspaper Siglo 21 ("21st Century"). Tomás Eloy Martínez, an experienced journalist the editor-in-chief had hired to train the young staff of Siglo 21, worried that readers would find her Cora first name and German last name confusing and convinced her to adopt the byline of Alejandra Xanic.

1992 Guadalajara explosions

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Category:Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni‎