Since 2008, she has covered the extreme violence and other problems that have plagued the city as a result of the government’s war on drugs. Her work has attracted widespread recognition, including the 2013 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism, the 2012 Zenger Award from the University of Arizona School of Journalism, the 2011 Knight International Journalism Award and the 2010 Reporteros Del Mundo Award from Spain’s El Mundo for outstanding work covering a conflict zone. Her book “La Fabrica del Crimen” was published in 2012. Rodríguez Nieto will study ways to develop sustainable online investigative and narrative journalism projects, focusing on governmental accountability and transparency in Mexico. She is the 2014 Ruth Cowan Nash Nieman Fellow. Nash was best known for her work as an Associated Press war correspondent during World War II.