Patricia Mazzei

1 p.m. Central Nov. 19

Patricia Mazzei is The New York Times’ Miami bureau chief, covering Florida and Puerto Rico.

Before joining The Times, she was the political writer for The Miami Herald, where she reported on the 2016 presidential election, the Cuban diaspora and natural disasters.

A University of Miami graduate, she was born and raised in Venezuela, and is bilingual in Spanish.

Wesley Lowery

1 p.m. Central Nov. 20

Wesley Lowery is a correspondent for the “60 Minutes” program “60 in 6,” streaming on the new mobile device platform Quibi. 

He comes from the Washington Post, where he distinguished himself as one of the country’s foremost journalists on race, law enforcement and justice. He also has appeared regularly on CNN as a political contributor; his reporting and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, among other outlets. 

Lowery led the “Fatal Force” project for The Washington Post, which examined police shootings across the U.S., revealed  patterns and created an original database. The 2015 investigation won the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award for national reporting. 

Lowery is the author of “They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.” The bestseller was widely acclaimed and won Lowery a Los Angeles Times book prize.  

In 2012, Lowery was a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times, before joining The Boston Globe as a general assignment reporter and contributing to the paper’s Pulitzer-Prize winning coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing. He joined The Washington Post in 2014, the same year he was named emerging journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Lowery began his career in journalism at Ohio University, where he was editor-in-chief of the independent campus newspaper, The Post. During this period, he also served as an intern for The Detroit News, The Columbus Dispatch and the Wall Street Journal. Lowery earned his undergraduate degree from the university’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.