By Akilah Johnson, February 7, 2018, The Boston Globe Sura has spent much of her life fleeing wars and waiting to find a place to permanently call...
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ON THE MEDIA: Reuters Journalists Covering Rohingya Conflict in Myanmar Detained for ‘Illegally Acquiring Information’
By Mong Palatino, January 19th, 2018, for Global Voices Two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, are being accused of violating Myanmar’s...
Cinéma vérité doc video editors needed now through mid-March
Editors needed to edit four docs, 8-12 min each, shot by and about new immigrants. Scene-based, character-driven (not interview-driven) documentary...
“Broadening the Discussion about Immigration,” Michael Sheridan for The Blue Mountain Center on CSFilm and NIRV
Broadening the Discussion about Immigration By Michael Sheridan for the Blue Mountain Center In 2010, I founded Community Supported Film (CSFilm) in...
ON THE MEDIA: Global unhappiness with the news media is high. In the U.S. (surprise!) partisanship drives what people think about the media
By SHAN WANG, January 11, 2018, for Nieman Lab In the U.S., supporting the party in power correlates with thinking the media does a terrible job....
CSFilm NIRV Filmmaker, Qin Li, Appointed as a Visiting Assistant Researcher at the University of California
CSFilm New Immigrant and Refugee Visions filmmaker, Qin Li, has been appointed as a Visiting Assistant Researcher at the University of California,...
ON THE MEDIA: Letting Black Women Tell Their Own Stories
By Monique Judge for NeimanLab “In 2018, journalism will need to do a better job of seeking out the voices of black women. It will not be enough to...
HAITI NEWS AND VIEWS: In 1825, Haiti Gained Independence From France For $21 Billion — It’s Time For France To Pay It Back
By Dan Sperling, December 6, 2017, for Forbes The devastation wreaked on Haiti by Hurricane Matthew last fall was just the latest in a seemingly...
AFGHANISTAN NEWS AND VIEWS: Private War: Erik Prince Has His Eye On Afghanistan’s Rare Metals
By Aram Roston, December 7, 2017, for BuzzFeed News Controversial private security tycoon Erik Prince has famously pitched an audacious plan to the...
AFGHANISTAN NEWS AND VIEWS: U.S. airstrikes rise sharply in Afghanistan — and so do civilian deaths
By Shashank Bengali, December 4, 2017, for The LA Times As U.S. warplanes flew above a cluster of villages where Islamic State militants were holed...
ON MIGRATION: ‘This is the moment’: Dreamers face make-or-break push on immigration fight with Trump
By David Nakamura and Ed O'Keefe, December 4, 2017, for The Washington Post Through three presidents over a decade, young undocumented immigrants...
ON ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Investors make a bet to lift Boston-area neighborhood out of poverty
By Dan Gorenstein, December 4, 2017, for Marketplace How do you raise the standard of living in the poorest neighborhoods in the country? That’s...