Natalie Pompilio

2001

Natalie Pompilio a staff writer for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Pompilio covers the police beat in a city known for an unusually high rate of violent crime.

Her stories have focused on the impact of violence on the families of victims, drug abuse and suicide. She recently wrote an article on a local man, in the sixth year of a difficult recovery after losing his wife in the Oklahoma City bombing.