The Times: Was It a Signed Emigration?

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I had not written a newspaper article before i got to the times. But i loved their work and really wanted to learn how to do it. I think there's so much you can convey in audio that you can't in print. And likewise, you can just get a lot more detail into a print story. You have to be really efficient when your audience is just listening to you and is very easily bored.

Caitlin Dickerson is a staff writer for The Atlantic covering immigration. Her latest article, on the secret history of U.S. government’s family-separation policy, is ”An American Catastrophe.”

“Interviewing separated families, I’ve found, is just on a whole other scale of pain and trauma. I’ve watched people have really intense PTSD flashbacks in front of me. I never wanted to risk asking a family to open up in that way if I didn’t know that I’d be able to use that material. The worst thing you can do is waste someone’s time in a way that causes them pain.”

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