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Video: Covering immigration safely and with care
The Institute held a panel discussion on Tuesdaywith reporters and editors who shared their experiences covering immigration enforcement directives and protests:
“You have constitutional rights. You have rights in theory and then you have rights in practice,” said Jon Collins, senior reporter at Minnesota Public Radio. “And what's on the ground here is that ICE and the federal agents are not respecting those rights in practice.”
“More and more in our country, the kinds of things that war correspondents learn how to do to protect themselves and their crew are the same kind of things that we are going to need to do on our streets,” said Arelis Hernández, national reporter at The Washington Post.
"Collaboration is not optional," said Michelle Zenarosa, editor-in-chief at LA Public Press. “We're a newsroom of 14 staffers, and we were pretty underprepared. I had journalists who got hit by rubber bullets, who got detained, so I looked to organizations that already had frameworks for dangerous reporting."
"Compassion and empathy are not bad things. Caring about people is your superpower. It's not some weakness," said Adrian Carrasquillo, national immigration correspondent and The Bulwark newsletter author. "At a time when an administration is denying people their humanity — Latinos, immigrants, U.S. citizens — actually affirming humanity ... this stuff matters. The work that we do matters."
Watch the full discussion:
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