Ink Stained

A New Book of Original Stories by members of the Columbia J-School's Class of 1992

I’ve Seen You Somewhere Before – Tom Vogel

Tom Vogel grew up in Bexley, Ohio, covered Latin America for more than 20 years and lived in the region for 11 of them in Peru, Venezuela, and Brazil. After covering international economics and the financial markets for The Wall Street Journal in New York, Vogel became the Journal’s first Andean region bureau chief, based in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1996, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting as a member of the Journal team that covered the Mexican peso crisis. The same team won the 1996 Inter-American Press Association’s award for economics reporting in Latin America. Vogel went on to become Bloomberg News’s first Latin America columnist, based in Sao Paulo. He continues to cover the region as founder and managing partner of strategic, corporate and crisis communications consultancy Rachlan Strategic Communications LLC. He lives in New York.