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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 6:22 AM

Where's the Sheriff?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona's Maricopa County boasts that he's the "toughest sheriff in America." Two years ago he began a highly publicized crackdown on illegal immigration, and last month he announced that deputies had booked their 1,000th suspected
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 6:29 AM

The Abandoned Man

"Nobody's Fault" in the North Coast Journal is a powerful and disturbing investigation into the death of James Lee Peters, a 25-year-old Native American who committed suicide in a California jail cell. Part of what makes this story impressive
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 6:21 AM

Smugglers and Guards

As investigative reporting budgets shrink while multimedia storytelling expands, I wonder if we'll see more joint efforts like the one between PBS' Frontline World and The New York Times that ran yesterday. "Mexico: Crimes at the Border" by Lowell
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Friday, May 16, 2008 8:18 AM

Dying of Neglect

Award-winning Washington Post reporters Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest just concluded a stunning series, "Careless Detention: Medical Care in Immigrant Prisons." Some 33,000 immigrants are crammed into these facilities, often for minor offenses, and many
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:30 AM

Back to Mexico

The Record in Stockton, Calif., proves that you don't need to be a big newspaper to put together lively Web packages. "And a Song Shall Carry Them Home" by reporter Jennifer Torres and photographer Victor Blue follows three musician brothers as they return
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 8:30 AM

A Shooting in Black and White

In The New Yorker this week, Calvin Trillin brilliantly dissects a shooting in suburban Long Island. "The Color of Blood" recounts what happens when a middle-age black man who has just moved into his dream home confronts a gang of
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Friday, January 18, 2008 9:30 AM

The Guatemalan Connection

The Web site of the Bay Area News Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times, reaches a wider audience for its fascinating series on Guatemalan immigrants by running versions of the stories in English and in Spanish. Staff
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:30 AM

Crossings

Two mid-sized newspapers have produced outstanding narrative series on Mexican laborers traveling to and from the United States. Each series helps us to better understand the people who make these perilous journeys. In "The Road Home to Mexico," by Amanda
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Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:00 AM

Through Others' Eyes

While the debate over immigration rages, Christine Evans of the Palm Beach Post takes us away from the anchor desks, away from the op-ed pages, and transports us to a kindergarten in Lake Worth, Fla., to meet some delightful young immigrants from several
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007 8:30 AM

The 49th Parallel

Small newspapers with big ambitions deserve admiration, and the Helena Independent Record is worthy of special praise for its "Big Sky, Big Border" project. While the immigration debate has focused attention on the U.S. border with Mexico, the
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Monday, October 08, 2007 8:55 PM

The Young and the Talented

My faith in journalism's future was renewed this weekend at the Society of Professional Journalists convention where I had the good fortune to hear the talented reporters of Youth Voices. These high-school students from around the Washington, D.C., area
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 8:30 AM

Spying on Mrs. King

Persistence paid off for David Raziq and Mark Greenblatt of Houston's KHOU Channel 11, who worked for more than a year and a half to force the FBI to respond to their Freedom of Information Act request for the agency's files on Coretta Scott
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