Reporter's Notebook: Reporting from Mexico During Moments of Political Inflection

Kate Linthicum is a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent based in Mexico City. Since joining the LA Times in 2008, she has covered immigration, local and national politics, and reported from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. A series of stories she wrote about Mexico’s homicide crisis earned her the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Foreign Correspondence. She has won two Overseas Press Club awards, is a two-time Livingston Awards finalist and was part of a team of journalists that won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. She was raised in New Mexico and graduated from Barnard College. Kate discusses her reporting from Mexico and shares what has been surprising about covering Mexico and what will be the big stories she will be watching for 2026. Her most recent article "Trump wants to attack cartels. Many Mexicans welcome it" is an example of her work, very richly reported and very timely.