immigration reporting

Here’s your chance to experience journalism on the border — on us

20 journalists will attend an expenses-paid trip to meet with border officials, experts and aid workers in El Paso

March 14, 2024

The state of journalism in 6 acts. There’s reason to be upbeat

The head of Poynter’s Beat Academy sees its lessons reflected in great local news coverage

September 29, 2023

A boat containing 14 bodies appeared in the Caribbean. The AP set off to learn their identities.

Nearly two years and several extraordinary measures later, they identified 33 of the 43 people who had set off from West Africa.

May 1, 2023

Opinion | Lessons from North Carolina on covering local immigration news

New research from Define American reveals insufficiencies in how news outlets report on such communities and how important it is to improve

October 27, 2022

How to improve reporting on immigration? Produce more local coverage and hire immigrants.

Plus eight more takeaways from a report on improving immigration journalism from Borderless Magazine.

January 13, 2021

Amaris Castillo

He seemed so small. AP reporter recounts 1-year-old before immigration judge

When Astrid Galván entered the Phoenix courtroom at 8:15 a.m. Friday, the AP reporter didn't…

July 10, 2018

How front pages around the world showed the separation of immigrant children in the U.S.

The separation of immigrant children from parents entering the U.S. illegally has led to contentious…

June 20, 2018

Taylor Blatchford

#EmergingUS launches $1 million crowdfunding campaign to cover the country’s changing identity

#EmergingUS announced the launch of a million dollar crowdfunding campaign through Beacon on Thursday. The…

February 18, 2016

Migrahack brings together journalists, programmers and community

Chicago MigrahackImmigration stories usually have numbers. But immigration numbers have stories of their own. Many…

December 24, 2013