Trine Tsouderos
Science and medical reporter
My Role
Science and medicine, investigations
My Biography
Trine Tsouderos joined the Chicago Tribune in 2003 as a reporter covering planning issues in the suburbs. Before being named the paper’s science reporter in January 2009, she was a features writer.
Her work in features earned her an Honorable Mention in the 2007 American Association of Sunday and Features Editors contest.
In 2010, a series of stories she wrote with reporter Patricia Callahan on alternative treatments for autism won two national journalism awards: First Place in the Association of Healthcare Journalists' Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and Honorable Mention, Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
Tsouderos also worked as a reporter for People magazine, tracking down celebrity news in the Midwest. At The Tennessean, she helped uncover systemic abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses as part of an investigative series that led to reform in the state’s signature sport.
As a health reporter at The Wilson Daily Times in rural North Carolina, Tsouderos unearthed appalling conditions in the county’s rest homes, and revealed weak enforcement of state regulation of those homes.
Tsouderos, 39, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in International Studies in 1994. She speaks rusty Russian, French, Spanish and a little Norwegian.
While in college, she struggled with whether to become a journalist or a physician, writing for the campus magazine, taking pre-med classes, volunteering in a hospital emergency room and working as a research assistant on a large epidemiological project. She chose journalism but sometimes takes classes like organic chemistry for fun.
Curious how to pronounce Trine Tsouderos? No, the name is not a typo. It's Norwegian (first name) and Greek (last) and it is pronounced TREE-na soo-DARE-ose.
Her work in features earned her an Honorable Mention in the 2007 American Association of Sunday and Features Editors contest.
In 2010, a series of stories she wrote with reporter Patricia Callahan on alternative treatments for autism won two national journalism awards: First Place in the Association of Healthcare Journalists' Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and Honorable Mention, Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
Tsouderos also worked as a reporter for People magazine, tracking down celebrity news in the Midwest. At The Tennessean, she helped uncover systemic abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses as part of an investigative series that led to reform in the state’s signature sport.
As a health reporter at The Wilson Daily Times in rural North Carolina, Tsouderos unearthed appalling conditions in the county’s rest homes, and revealed weak enforcement of state regulation of those homes.
Tsouderos, 39, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in International Studies in 1994. She speaks rusty Russian, French, Spanish and a little Norwegian.
While in college, she struggled with whether to become a journalist or a physician, writing for the campus magazine, taking pre-med classes, volunteering in a hospital emergency room and working as a research assistant on a large epidemiological project. She chose journalism but sometimes takes classes like organic chemistry for fun.
Curious how to pronounce Trine Tsouderos? No, the name is not a typo. It's Norwegian (first name) and Greek (last) and it is pronounced TREE-na soo-DARE-ose.
My Interests
Traveling, reading, art, languages, bluegrass music, science, viruses (thinking about them, not catching them), cooking, big waves and big wave surfing.
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