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CONTACT:
natalie.alcoba@gmail.com
+54 9 11 2391 3723
@nataliealcoba
Natalie Alcoba is a Argentine-Canadian journalist based in Buenos Aires.
She writes for numerous international publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Globe and Mail and VICE. She covers a range of topics, including the women’s movement in Latin America, politics, the economy, human rights and grassroots environmental movements. She has co-produced short documentaries on 100% inflation, trans rights, the impact of the pandemic on women workers, land occupations and the legalization of abortion in Argentina.
Prior to moving to Argentina, she was a reporter for more than a decade in Canada at newspapers such as the National Post, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, and the Hamilton Spectator. She served as managing editor of VICE News Canada for four years, shepherding coverage on national issues such as the crisis of unsafe drinking water in Indigenous communities and the opioid epidemic. She has also reported from Sierra Leone and India. She has taught at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), where she obtained her journalism degree.
Since 2023, she has worked as a writer and editor at Corporate Knights, a Canadian green economy magazine.
Recognition
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting Grantee, 2021
Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto
Sydney Hillman Foundation - “Canada’s Indigenous Water Crisis” series (VICE News Canada)
Canadian Online Publishing Awards - Relapse: Facing Canada’s Opioid Crisis (VICE Canada)