About Me

at a glance

Producer for Rhode Island PBS Weekly, a newsmagazine broadcast
Contributor to PBS News Weekend (Thrifting, Toy Maker, Food Waste)
New England Emmy Award Winner, NETA Public Media Award Winner (Critical Race Theory)
Experience in breaking news (Business Insider) and investigative journalism (Reuters)
Studied data journalism and multimedia at Stanford University
Finalist for Goldsmith Reporting Prize (Contributed reporting to The Teflon Robe)

IN-depth

Hi, I’m Isabella and I’m a producer for Rhode Island PBS Weekly, a newsmagazine broadcast. I spend my time interviewing sources, producing shoots, and writing scripts. My work has been broadcast nationally on PBS News Weekend, and this year I received a New England Emmy Award and NETA Public Media Award for my story on Critical Race Theory. My story on thrift shopping has over 130K views on Youtube.

Previously, I was a Business News Fellow at Business Insider, where I wrote up to 3 stories a day about the latest trends in retail, transportation, and technology. It made me a quick writer, with a knack for eye-catching headlines and creative angles on the biggest news of the day. I averaged about 8 million views on my articles per month, with some months exceeding 14 million views.

Before that, I was an editorial intern at Reuters News Agency in New York. I created and analyzed data for The Teflon Robe, an investigation into how judges abuse their power, which was later a finalist for the Goldsmith Reporting Prize. I also worked on the U.S. general news team.

I got my start in journalism at Stanford University. As an undergraduate, I pitched and received a grant to interview veterans of the Afghanistan War. I talked to ex-officers who told me about the ethical dilemmas they faced. The experience of interviewing people lit a spark, so I began taking journalism classes. Then, I attended Stanford University’s Journalism master’s program, where I covered the cannabis industry, housing, and more. I reported on Camp Fire in Paradise, California, and won the James S. Robinson Award for my reporting. My thesis on how the housing crisis could affect the 2020 Census was published by the San Francisco NPR Station KQED.

These days, I’m based in Providence, Rhode Island, aka “Little Rhody,” aka “the mecca for Del’s lemonade.” I have a story ideas list 15 pages long and an intimate relationship with my outlook calendar. Some of my favorite stories are linked on this website, please take a look.