Spotlight: Family Separation at the Border
In June of 2018, ProPublica released a piece of audio that would come to define one of the most critical news stories of the year: the separation and detention of families seeking asylum at the U.S. - Mexico border.
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In June of 2018, ProPublica released a piece of audio that would come to define one of the most critical news stories of the year: the separation and detention of families seeking asylum at the U.S. - Mexico border.
The opening panel of the 2018 Third Coast Conference explored the extensive reporting behind this story — and how the it continued to unfold, even after the daily news cycle moved on. Moderated by Sean Rameswaram (Today, Explained), the panel was made up of a group of journalists who had been tirelessly reporting this story: Anayansi Diaz-Cortes ( Reveal ), Caitlin Dickerson ( The New York Times ) & Jeremy Raff ( The Atlantic ). This session took on the realities of translating a complex, ongoing human rights crisis into story.
This session is also available to listen on the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast.
TRANSCRIPT : Read a full transcript of this session here, thanks to Descript.
Featuring
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Sean Rameswaram (@rameswaram) is the host of Today, Explained from Vox and Stitcher.
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Jeremy Raff (@JeremyRaff) is a documentary producer at The Atlantic in Washington, D.C.
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Caitlin Dickerson is a national immigration reporter based in New York.
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Anayansi Diaz-Cortes is a reporter and producer for Reveal.