Immigration reporting should include the people who are most affected by the policies we write about. This means reporters need to actually talk to the people who are most affected by the polices we write about. A thread.
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The result is incomplete stories that de-center the people who are affected by policies. We desperately need first- and second-gen Kaqchikel and Mam researchers and reporters. But newsrooms generally don’t even recognize, much less cultivate, Central American indigenous journos.
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We do a disservice to all readers when we are unable to root any of our reporting in the communities we write about. Yet this is the standard in immigration reporting—largely because of the lack of diversity on this beat. We need to change that. Quickly.
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