ABOUT NATALIE

Natalie Pierre is a journalist with 18 years of experience in sports media, including more than a decade in leadership roles. Throughout her career, she has covered some of college football’s most successful programs and led award-winning sports departments focused on audience growth, innovation and impactful storytelling.

 

She is currently the sports editor at The Minnesota Star Tribune and the president and co-founder of The Mental Game, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to normalizing conversations about mental health in the sports world.

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Previously, Natalie served as sports director at The Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and sports editor at The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. She also spent four years leading a video production company that covered basketball across the Southeast.

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Earlier in her career, Natalie was a senior reporter covering Southeastern Conference football for AL.com and The Birmingham News. Her career also took her to Tallahassee, Florida, where she covered Florida State football, basketball and baseball for the Tallahassee Democrat.

 

Natalie began her journalism career in Cleveland, Mississippi, as a general assignment reporter and weekly columnist for The Cleveland News Leader. A native of Lake Mary, Florida, Natalie earned a Master of Science in broadcast and digital journalism from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Delta State University.