The Border Project
“Beyond the Border” is a unique international and cross-cultural reporting project developed by Prof. Yvonne Latty of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Dr. Celeste González de Bustamante of the University of Arizona School of Journalism to give journalism students hands-on experience in areas of trauma and conflict. New York University students of the Reporting the Nation, Reporting New York graduate concentrations, will travel to the Arizona/Mexico border to report alongside University of Arizona students about issues and problems affecting the peoples of the border such as migration, violence, environmental degradation, and ethnic and racial conflict. University of Arizona students will then travel to New York to report “beyond the border” alongside their NYU counterparts on issues and problems facing Mexican and Mexican-Americans in New York City.
Here is a documentary I produced about our trip, which was an incredible experience for all of us.
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The Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma on “Beyond the Border”
I wrote this on my way back from Mexico for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, one of our sponsors.
My students produced amazing work on the trip. You can read and view here.
The border wall