Best Austin-based Foreign Correspondent

Judith Torrea

One of the city's best kept secrets, the Southwest correspondent for the Spanish (that's Spain) news agency EFE might be the only U.S. foreign correspondent not living in New York City who doesn't own a car and doesn't even know how to drive. She has not driven to Huntsville, Brownsville, the King Ranch, Amarillo, Sierra Blanca, El Paso, Fort Worth, and Laredo and the border colonia of Cenizo. Yet she has filed terrific dateline stories from each of these places, usually by prevailing on a friend or bystander with wheels and a valid Texas driver's license.