NATALIE WALTERS
Investigative Business Reporter
Natalie Walters is an established business reporter, having worked for The Motley Fool, TheStreet, and Business Insider in the four years since she graduated with a journalism degree. Walters is now looking to take her career to the next level by honing her skills as a watchdog journalist by attending the inaugural one-year investigative journalism master's program at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
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Natalie Walters on-camera samples
Natalie Walters on-camera samples
Natalie Walters talks Amazon Prime Day on CheddarTV
TheStreet's Tech Reporter Natalie Walters Explains What Alibaba Does
Natalie Walters speaks on CheddarTV about whether the iPhone could be made in America
Coming Up This Week on The Weekly Pulse
NATALIE AT WORK
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM MA PROGRAM AT CRONKITE / GA FOR THE REYNOLDS BUSINESS BUREAU
Natalie is one of 18 students in the inaugural investigative MA program at the Cronkite School in Phoenix, Ariz. She is studying under some of the journalism "greats," such as Leonard Downie and Robby Robinson. The program is one-year and places a heavy focus on hands-on experience and multimedia elements.
She's also working as a GA for the Reynolds Business Bureau, where she writes articles for businessjournalism.org. The bureau hands out the annual Barlett & Steele investigative business journalism awards.
BUSINESS JOURNALISM
Natalie started out in New York in 2015 as an editorial intern for Business Insider where she wrote over 100 quick, catchy stories and slideshows. After six months, she was ready to hone her business journalism skills. She started as a breaking news reporter at TheStreet where she wrote 15 stories per day on timely business news. While this was a tough gig at first due to the high volume of articles, the job acted like a speed course for business school. After six months, she was promoted to a tech reporter. She was made the lead reporter on Alibaba and even interviewed Alibaba president Joe Tsai. She was also put in charge of an initiative to interview high-level executives for a series of print and video feature stories. Soon after, she was contacted by The Motley Fool, which hired her as a tech reporter.
CHEDDARTV APPEARANCES
While working as a tech reporter at TheStreet, Natalie was asked to appear on CheddarTV three times to provide analysis about breaking tech news. CheddarTV would typically reach out to Natalie when they saw one of her articles was trending online. Often, the amount of research she did for an IPO or Amazon Prime Day event couldn't fit into one article, so she enjoyed getting to share more background information with CheddarTV viewers.
THE WEEKLY PULSE PODCAST
Natalie is the weekly tech expert on The Weekly Pulse podcast that covers tech, finances, and retirement. Jeffrey Snyder is the founder and CEO of The Weekly Pulse, which also has over 90,000 newsletter subscribers. The team is recording an official video promo at the end of July. The podcast is available on iTunes and on the company's website. Click below to listen to an episode!
LOCAL JOURNALISM
In college, Natalie started out writing for local news publications in Greenville, SC. She was an intern for Community Journals, which publishes both the Greenville Journal and the Upstate Business Journal. That year, Community Journals won the SC Press Association’s President’s Cup for Excellence. She also served as the copy editor for her Greenville-based university's newspaper, The Collegian.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
REYNOLDS BUSINESS BUREAU
GRADUATE ASSISTANT
PHOENIX, AZ
August 2019-current
-write articles for businessjournalism.org
-produce podcasts for businessjournalism.org
THE MOTLEY FOOL
TECH REPORTER
NEW YORK
August 2017-July 2019
-researched and wrote in-depth, timely articles on tech and retail topics
-picked my own topics based on relevant news and my own expertise about what readers want
-served as a weekly guest on the official podcast of "The Weekly
Pulse," which is a financial site that sends a newsletter out to 90,000 subscribers
-I was ranked #116 out of 6,527 financial bloggers on tipranks.com based on the performance of my stock recommendations
THESTREET
TECH REPORTER
NEW YORK
January 2017 - August 2017
-wrote three in-depth articles on breaking tech news each day
-interviewed analysts, CEOs, and other experts to add depth to my articles
-was the lead reporter for Alibaba
-led TheStreet's coverage for all Samsung product launches
-was put in charge of TheStreet's initiative to interview as many top tech
executives as possible, including Alibaba cofounder Joe Tsai
THESTREET
BREAKING NEWS REPORTER
NEW YORK
May 2016 - December 2016
wrote over 1,200 stories for TheStreet on breaking news events
picked out my own topics by keeping up with trending news and breaking news alerts
I received an award for the most article views
BUSINESS INSIDER
EDITORIAL INTERN
NEW YORK
August 2015 - April 2016
wrote two to three articles and slideshows per day
articles generated over 25.5 million hits for Business Insider and was featured on the “Business Insider Top Ten” leaderboard
interviewed C-level executives and other VIPs, including former
Apple CEO John Sculley and IHOP president Darren Rebelez
helped with a sponsored INSIDER video for AirBnB
GREENVILLE JOURNAL
EDITORIAL INTERN
GREENVILLE, SC
January 2015 - May 2015
wrote two to three articles per week on issues within the community
attended weekly City Council meetings
helped copy edit articles
the publication won the SC Press Association’s President’s Cup for Excellence
THE COLLEGIAN
COPY EDITOR
GREENVILLE, SC
August 2014 - May 2015
assigned stories to our 10 writers each week based on my research about our campus and city
helped design the weekly paper using InCopy and InDesign
copy edited every article featured in the paper
I won an award for most article views before being promoted to Copy Editor