Spotlight: Family Separation at the Border (2018)

In June of 2018, ProPublica released a piece of audio that would come to define one of the most critical news stories of the year: the separation and detention of families seeking asylum at the U.S. - Mexico border.

The opening panel of the 2018 Third Coast Conference explored the extensive reporting behind this story — and how the it continued to unfold, even after the daily news cycle moved on. Moderated by Sean Rameswaram (Today, Explained), the panel was made up of a group of journalists who had been tirelessly reporting this story: Anayansi Diaz-Cortes (Reveal), Caitlin Dickerson (The New York Times) & Jeremy Raff (The Atlantic). This session took on the realities of translating a complex, ongoing human rights crisis into story. 

You can listen to all the sessions from previous years of the conference at ThirdCoastFestival.org. There you can also find a link to the full transcript of the this episode, thanks to Descript.

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