Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO University) located in Guadalajara.[1] Before becoming a journalist, von Bertrab was involved in woodworking.[2]
At the age of 18, she became a radio host at her university. Two to three years later, in 1991, she became an investigative reporter at the newly founded local newspaper
Luis Donaldo Colosio and the role of passenger trains in Mexico in drug trafficking.[1][4]
She kept working at Siglo 21 as it became the newspaper Publico. She then moved to Mexico City. There, she worked as a freelance journalist and was the editor of the Expansion magazine of CNN and investigated health issues as well as other social topics for the Mexican edition of Cambio.[1][5] She made extensive use of the act on freedom of information in Mexico and investigated the lobbying strategies of the tobacco industry in 2010 and 2011.[3]
In 2012, she collaborated with
Wal-Mart used widespread bribery to dominate the market in Mexico, resulting in changes in company practices". The company was forced to release a report detailing how they intended to prevent corrupt practices in the future.[4][6] Her work with Barstow earned them the 2012 George Polk Award for Business Journalism,[5] the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting,[6] and the 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism.[7] She is the first Mexican woman to be awarded a Pulitzer in that field.[1]
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time from 1953–1963 and the Pulitzer Prize for Local Investigative Specialized Reporting from 1964–1984
