María Sánchez Díez is a Spanish journalist focused on editorial strategy and storytelling innovation. She is a senior editor for storytelling and training at The New York Times. Before that, she worked at The Washington Post as a senior audience/operations editor embedded on the National desk and was part of the team that produced “2C: Beyond the Limit,” which won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism. She also ran ProPublica’s Electionland project, which won the ONA Award for Excellence in Collaborations and Partnerships, and was a reporter and general assignment editor focused on alternative story formats and immigration coverage at Univision News. Her feature about the language barriers that affect Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence was awarded with NAHJ’s Elaine Rivera Civil Rights & Social Justice Award (2017) and she was part of the team that won the Ortega y Gasset Journalism Award for the podcast “Mejor vete, Cristina” (2018). Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Quartz, The Atlantic, El Diario, Soitu, SModa, Salvaje and Condé Nast Traveler. She is a Fulbright scholar, a Tow-Knight Center fellow and she holds a master’s degree from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.