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ASU News21 in 2010
A woman holds a sign at a rally held in downtown Phoenix in opposition to Arizona's new immigration law. Last year, when we chose Latino and Borderlands issues as our focus for ASU News21, we knew we...
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Have camera(s), will report
Chicago is approximately 2,000 miles from our News21 newsroom in Phoenix. And I was there, as a backpack-journalism team of one. During a tour of the neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village in...
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San Francisco’s Mission District has been a hub of Hispanic culture since Mexican immigrants first began settling there in the 1940s. In the decades that followed, the neighborhood became emblematic of...
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Arizona Heat : Experiencing the Desert on Foot
Amid southern Arizona’s vast landscape of dry foothills, valleys and mountains it’s easy to feel very small. The people that I’m writing about move through this land, sometimes on a daily basis — they...
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Building Trust With Sources
There is no doubt that complexities will arise when you are a journalist from Arizona working on a story dealing with the Latino population. Due mainly to its new immigration law, our state is facing...
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Into Nogales
Our guide, Frank, met us on the South side of the downtown Nogales Border Patrol checkpoint. We walked across to meet him because he can’t go any further north. We hired him to translate for us and to...
View ArticleJohn Doe
By Lauren Gilger, video by Lisa Ruhl We were sitting on a bench at Grupo Beta — the Mexican government’s border patrol and migrant relief agency — in Nogales, Mexico when we got the call. After two...
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