Molly O’Toole was one of the recipients of the first Pulitzer Prize for audio journalism in 2020, reporting for an episode of “This American Life.” Ms. O’Toole has also reported for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Newsweek, and the Associated Press from Central America, West Africa, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia.
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An Urgent Conversation With Award-Winning Immigration Journalists and Authors
Wednesday, December 01, 2021, 5pm
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Event Overview
With more people displaced on the planet now than at any point in modern human history, along with bitterly divisive politics and a decimated journalism industry both in the U.S. and beyond, what is — or should be — the role of the immigration reporter in shaping our politics and our policy?
Join us for a conversation among journalist Sonia Nazario, journalist Nadja Drost, and moderator Molly O’Toole ‘09, this semester’s Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. You'll hear insight from frontline, on-the-ground reporting on the world's longest human migration, as conducted by immigration journalists who've taken part of the route themselves.
Join us for a conversation among journalist Sonia Nazario, journalist Nadja Drost, and moderator Molly O’Toole ‘09, this semester’s Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. You'll hear insight from frontline, on-the-ground reporting on the world's longest human migration, as conducted by immigration journalists who've taken part of the route themselves.
What You'll Learn
- Why the unprecedented migration of refugees from around the world is currently underway through the Americas to the U.S.-Mexico border and beyond
- How policies and politics around immigration in both Europe and the U.S. are pushing and pulling refugees and migrants into routes both innovative and deadly
- The ways in which smugglers are cashing in on perverse policy incentives to record profits
- Strategies and tips that journalists (especially women journalists) employ to conduct difficult but important reporting and research on immigration — and turn it into prize-winning journalism and long-form nonfiction, including books
- How journalists, researchers, academics, and the public can and should respond to the realities of record human displacement amid political polarization and an anemic media industry
Speakers
Molly O’Toole
Immigration and Security Reporter
Los Angeles Times
Immigration and security reporter, Los Angeles Times
Journalist
Nadja Drost is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who lives in New York City after a decade based in Bogotá, Colombia. Ms. Drost enjoys working across various mediums, including long-form print, radio, and television, and regularly reports from Latin America as a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.
Journalist
Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction, immigration — and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards. Ms. Nazario is best known for “Enrique’s Journey,” her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, “Enrique’s Journey” won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was turned into a book by Random House and became a national bestseller.
Molly O’Toole
Immigration and Security Reporter
Los Angeles Times
Immigration and security reporter, Los Angeles Times
Molly O’Toole was one of the recipients of the first Pulitzer Prize for audio journalism in 2020, reporting for an episode of “This American Life.” Ms. O’Toole has also reported for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Newsweek, and the Associated Press from Central America, West Africa, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia.
Journalist
Nadja Drost is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker who lives in New York City after a decade based in Bogotá, Colombia. Ms. Drost enjoys working across various mediums, including long-form print, radio, and television, and regularly reports from Latin America as a special correspondent for the PBS NewsHour.
Journalist
Sonia Nazario is an award-winning journalist whose stories have tackled some of this country’s most intractable problems — hunger, drug addiction, immigration — and have won some of the most prestigious journalism and book awards. Ms. Nazario is best known for “Enrique’s Journey,” her story of a Honduran boy’s struggle to find his mother in the U.S. Published as a series in the Los Angeles Times, “Enrique’s Journey” won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2003. It was turned into a book by Random House and became a national bestseller.
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