Tracey Eaton

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Tracey Eaton is an award-winning writer, producer and multimedia journalist. He has worked throughout Latin America and is a former Fulbright scholar in Ecuador.

Eaton headed Dallas Morning News bureaus in Mexico and Cuba from 1994 to 2005. He investigated corruption and organized crime in Mexico and along the U.S.-Mexico border, and covered the fighting in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks.

His stories have appeared in hundreds of online media outlets and more than 100 U.S., Canadian and Latin American newspapers. Clients have included NBC News, USA Today, Newsweek, the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and the Weather Channel.

Eaton travels to Cuba regularly. In August 2015, he assisted NBC's Nightly News, led by Lester Holt, with its coverage of the opening of U.S. embassy in Havana. In March 2016, he traveled to Cuba again to help with NBC's coverage of President Barack Obama's historic visit to the island.