About

I’m a freelance reporter, writer and copyeditor with more than two decades of experience covering mostly Latin America.

It’s a turbulent region.

This is good for a reporter. First, there is a lot of news to cover, especially where I live in Argentina. Second, the ups and downs have honed my skills for covering fast-breaking news on tight deadlines and finding out what’s important and why.

For clients, this means I provide effective, engaging and in-depth writing that unravels issues so readers can understand them.

Here’s what a fellow journalist wrote about me:

“Charles Newbery is … someone who tries to see both sides and who reports from the center. They are rare birds these days.” – Robert Cox

I’ve written about financial and political crises. So too youth trends, enterprising communists, electric cars, green cities, and companies on the rise and those going bust. What else? The rise of low-budget airlines, investment trends in bond and equity markets in Latin America, bitcoin, digital textiles, successful entrepreneurs, soccer hooligans and a surfer fighting plastics in the ocean.

Hire me and you get a writer who can cover a wide range of fields. Call me a generalist (with expertise in energy, finance and technology), and that’s a fair assessment. I think it’s an asset. It has gained me a breadth of knowledge to spot trends across industries and see the bigger picture.

What else?

I write opinion pieces as a ghostwriter for executives — and blog posts, newsletters, press releases and other content for their businesses. I also do interviews and research on companies, markets and politics for reports to help investors make decisions on what to do with their businesses or investments.

You can look at my portfolio for examples of what I can do for you.

And me?

I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina with my wife and three children. When not writing professionally, I run, write down the funny things my kids do and say, and try to get to the beach to surf. It’s a four-hour drive, but there are some surprisingly good and empty beach breaks. I can make the comparison: I grew up in Los Angeles.

I got my B.A. in English from UCLA. I wrote my final paper on Shakespeare and several essays on his plays before that. He’s still one of my favorite writers. I studied Borges, Dickens, Chekhov, Hemingway, Joyce and many other writers. I read a lot. I wrote a lot. Funny, I’m still doing the same today.