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Jesse Alejandro Cottrell

Enterprise Reporter

jcottrell@sfstandard.com

Jesse Alejandro Cottrell is a bilingual (english/español) enterprise reporter at The Standard. Previously, Jesse was a staff audio reporter at VICE News, where he produced the weekly news magazine show, “VICE News Reports,” and the limited series “Havana Syndrome” and “Painkiller,” for which he won an Edward R Murrow Award. Jesse has also reported for The Atlantic, Harper’s, NPR’s “Latino USA,” Vox’s “Today, Explained,” and The California Sunday Magazine. Jesse grew up in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, hence his annoying burrito snobbery.