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Contributor  »  Sandra Dibble

Sandra Dibble is an award winning journalist who has traveled around the globe covering news. Since 1994 she has graced readers of the San Diego Union Tribune with her extensive reporting on Baja California. She covers the city of Tijuana, the state of Baja California and border issues. Prior to her stint in San Diego, Dibble served as a writer for National Geographic Magazine from 1991-1994. She specialized in Latin American issues, covering Paraguay and Oaxaca.

From 1981 to 1991 Dibble was a reporter for the Miami Herald, specializing in immigration issues and coverage of Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian communities.

Dibble loves to learn. Her education is extensive. From 1987- 1988 Dibble attended an eight month fellowship program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She spent time covering issues in Los Angeles and three months in Mexico City.

Ms. Dibble also earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York City in 1981 and a B.A I Arabic and minor in English from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City

Dibble earned a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
in 1987 for her contribution to a five-person team covering Regan administration’s clandestine support for the Nicaraguan rebels.


Sandra resides in San Diego and is a member of the California Chicano News Media Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.