Vanessa de la Torre
Chief Content Officer at Connecticut Public and Executive Editor, New England News CollaborativeVanessa de la Torre is Chief Content Officer at Connecticut Public, overseeing all content with a mission to inform, educate and inspire diverse audiences across the state, including on radio, television and our organization’s 60-plus digital platforms.
Since 2020, she has also led the New England News Collaborative, a regional hub of top public media stations producing news and in-depth storytelling throughout New England.
Previously, de la Torre was a reporter for Connecticut Public and the public radio collaborative Sharing America, covering issues of race, identity and culture.
Before joining the public media world, de la Torre wrote for newspapers such as the Hartford Courant, where her investigative storytelling on Hartford education won regional and national awards. She also was part of the Courant team that was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting.
De la Torre grew up in El Centro, Calif., a desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border, and is a graduate of Princeton University. She received her master's degree from Stanford University’s Graduate Program in Journalism. More recently, de la Torre has served on the board of the award-winning New England chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
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A sprightly “Good morning!” awaited students and parents who approached Sanchez Elementary School on the Friday before spring break.Maybe the school staff… -
Un animado "¡Buenos días!" esperaba a estudiantes y padres que se acercaban a la Escuela Primaria Sánchez el viernes antes de las vacaciones de… -
They came from countries like Haiti, Italy, Canada, Mexico, and Ghana. And on Thursday, inside the downtown Hartford Public Library, 50 immigrants took… -
Like many of his neighbors, Bernie Michel came to Hartford from somewhere else.In Michel’s case, Ohio.But for more than two decades he’s lived in Asylum… -
It’s lunchtime at Central Connecticut State University and 10 students converge on their usual spot in the dining hall. They start talking about the food… -
Es la hora del almuerzo en la Universidad Estatal Central de Connecticut y 10 estudiantes se reúnen es su lugar habitual del comedor. Empiezan a hablar… -
It’s mid-March and Hartford Public High School teacher Bridget Allison goes over essay-writing tips for her fourth-period class. After a while, she checks… -
Es mediado de marzo y la profesora de la Secundaria Pública de Hartford, Bridget Allison, repasa las pautas para redacción de ensayos en su cuarto período… -
Show me the money.That’s the message from Hartford Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. The disaster last fall… -
Muéstrenme el dinero.Ese es el mensaje de la superintendente de Hartford, Leslie Torres-Rodríguez en la secuela del huracán María. El desastre del otoño…
