Natalie Y. Moore

CTL-E-6090 · Person · journalist · 2007–present

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Combined Graph record U-07311 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6090.

Natalie Y. Moore is a Chicago-native journalist and author whose reporting on segregation and inequality made her one of Black Chicago's defining contemporary chroniclers. She joined Chicago's WBEZ in 2007 and became its South Side reporter, covering race, housing, economic development, food injustice, and violence, with work broadcast by the BBC, Marketplace, and NPR and published in outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times, where she wrote a monthly column, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. Before WBEZ she reported for the Detroit News, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Associated Press in Jerusalem. Her book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation won the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction, and she co-authored The Almighty Black P Stone Nation and Deconstructing Tyrone. She holds a journalism degree from Howard University and a master's from Northwestern's Medill School, received the Chicago Library Foundation's 21st Century Award in 2017, and was named the Chicago Reader's best journalist that year. In April 2026 she moderated a Chicago journalism panel as a Medill lecturer.

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• Also known as: Natalie Moore

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Referenced by

• Howard University — has alumnus → this record
• Northwestern University — has alumnus → this record

Sources

• South Dakota Public Broadcasting (NPR member), "Natalie Moore" (accessed 2026-10-16) — WBEZ South Side reporter on segregation and inequality, WBEZ staff from 2007, prior Detroit News / St. Paul Pioneer Press / AP Jerusalem posts, The South Side 2016 awards, co-authored books, Sun-Times column, 2017 21st Century Award and Chicago Reader best journalist, Howard B.A. and Medill M.S.J. — https://www.sdpb.org/people/natalie-moore (primary source · build store)
• Roosevelt University, "WBEZ Reporter Natalie Moore to Moderate Women's Leadership Council Symposium" (published 2024-02-15, accessed 2026-10-16) — Moore as WBEZ Reporter on Race, Class and Communities, journalist at WBEZ since 2007, The South Side 2016 award details — https://www.roosevelt.edu/stories/news/wbez-reporter-natalie-moore-moderate-womens-leadership-council-symposium (primary source · build store)
• The Daily Northwestern, "League of Women Voters holds panel on state of journalism in America" (published 2026-04-24, accessed 2026-10-16) — Moore moderating as a Medill lecturer in April 2026, speaking on press freedom — https://dailynorthwestern.com/2026/04/24/lateststories/chicago-journalists-discuss-press-freedom-and-doomscrolling-at-league-of-women-voters-panel/ (build store)

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