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Anita Snow

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Mexico City, Phoenix
Veteran journalist covering national stories in the Southwest 🌵 Past Mexico editor, Cuba buro chief, Nieman fellow, UN corro. Working on memoir “Losing Jimmy.'

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Anita Snow’s Biography

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Anita is a veteran journalist with extensive experience in Latin America, now based in the US Southwest with a general assignment beat covering national stories on topics including urban affairs, immigration and drug trafficking. She has been a foreign correspondent, news editor and staffer on a regional editing desk in Mexico City, a bureau chief in Havana and a foreign desk editor and UN correspondent in New York. She started her career in the 1980s as a metro reporter covering immigration an…

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I wrote my first news stories on a manual typewriter, pasting the pages together in a long chain with white glue.

How is social media changing news?

Many people now get all their news from social media, which can provide challenges in controlling propaganda and false news

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Along with the standard software and AP's specialized program, I use a lot of social media for reporting and promotion of stories.

Awards

Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University

2010 - Fellowship

https://nieman.harvard.edu/ Nieman began as a fellowship for select journalists who were invited to spend an academic year at Harvard in pursuit of individual study plans to strengthen their knowledge and leadership skills. Since 1938, the program has awarded Nieman fellowships to more than 1,500 journalists from nearly 100 countries.