NBCU Academy
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5th June 2024
Empathy in Journalism: Reporting on Migrants at the Border
This is the first of three student pieces produced in Montclair State University’s “On the Road: Reporting from the Field” multimedia course.
After a long, emotionally grueling day at the Nogales border crossing, our team of 10 student journalists drove in silence back to Tucson, Arizona. However, our reporting was not done. It was 5 p.m. when co-producer Gloria Perez and I arrived to interview humanitarian aid worker Dora Rodriguez for our story on the conditions of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico