Premio de los Voceadores de México (1967) Medalla Magdalena Mondragón (1989) Premio Club Primera Plana (ca 2009) Ampretur premier award for excellence in 2009 2012 AMPG award
Helen Kleinbort Krauze (born in Białystok) is a Polish-born[1] Mexican Jewish journalist who worked for over five decades as an interviewer, features and travel writer and columnist. She was first with Novedades, later with El Heraldo de México and more recently with Sol de Mexico and Protocolo magazine.[2]
Before she was a journalist, Krauze wrote newsletters during the 1950s.[8]
Helen Krauze began her journalism career in 1959 when she was hired by Daniel Dueñas at the Novedades newspaper to conduct interviews. She became known for her interviews first at Novedades and then later at El Heraldo de México and El Sol de México. She published around 900 interviews during her career, including interviews with Carlos Monsivais, Sarita Montiel, Josephine Baker, Spanish actor Manolo Fabregas, Mexican author Hugo Argüelles (Los Cuervos están de luto), Elena Poniatowska, Emilio Portes Gil, Teddy Stauffer, and Pedro Friedeberg.[1][8][9] She was a journalist for Novedades until 1989 when she was hired by El Heraldo de México (known later as the Diario Monitor),[6] and she became known later for her column La Semana con Helen Krauze.[3][7] She also contributed to Protocolo, Kena, Actual, Claudia and Siempre.[10]
In order to support her family she supplemented her income by doing costume work for a few of Tulio Demicheli's films, such as Novia, esposa y amante (1981), and TV host for La hora de los locutores.[3]
On 4 October 1967 she became part of the group of journalists Veinte Mujeres y un Hombre ("Twenty Women and a Man"). This group, founded by Hylda Pino de Sandoval, encouraged women to be educated and work in the journalism profession.[3][11] She is also a member and vice president of Asociación Mundial de Mujeres Periodistas y Escritoras ("World Association of Women Journalists and Writers").[10] She is also member of the Asociación Mexicana de Prensa Turística (Ampretur) ("Mexican Association of Tourism Press"), founded in 1975 by Agustín Salmón Esparza.[10]
^Neville, Harry (April 15, 1973). "Around the US with 5 foreign journalists". Boston Globe. p. B17. Retrieved 11 May 2011. The visiting writers were a varied lot some of them not strictly speaking music critics Helen Krauze, a feature writer of Novidades Mexico City was a ...
