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2007-06-24
More than 1,000 illegal immigrants have died in the Arizona desert since 2002. A network of government and non-government agencies do their best to save lives, but the harsh truth is that their efforts are only band aids on a larger problem.
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‘Sealing Our Border: Why it Won’t Work’ won another first place award, this time from Best of the West in the category ‘Online Enterprise Reporting’.Here’s an excerpt from the notification page, which can be viewed in full here.
This project stood apart. It is a great piece of enterprise reporting, a compelling and convincing investigation of a single critical question. More importantly, it is terrific online reporting.
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I filmed and produced this piece on the efforts by some legislators to bring a new capitol building to the state of Arizona.
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AZStarNet.com is a finalist for best news site with fewer than 1 million unique users in the 2007 Editor and Publisher EPpy Awards. We’re going up against ASAP (The Associated Press), HeraldTribune.com (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, where my buddy Damon spent the last 3 years) and PilotOnline.com (the Virginia Pilot in Hampton Roads). The winner is announced May 24 in Miami. Sadly, I won’t be making the journey to the awards ceremony. Check out the rest of the EPpy finalists.
In the 2007 Arizona APME News Writing and Photo Contest, ‘Sealing Our Border’ won first place for excellence in online presentation. NorthwestStar.com, a spinoff of the Sahuarita Star site I helped create, tied for second place in the same category. Read about all of the Star’s awards.
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A crowd of about 2,000 pro-immigration protesters rallied at Armory Park on May 1, 2007. They were met by a handful of anti-illegal immigration activists.
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Every day hundreds of illegal immigrants attempt to cross in the urban setting between Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. Most are caught; some make it through.
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Usually when you try to do a story about drug busts on the border and you need visuals, you wait for days before something happens. Earlier this week we were down in Nogales for another border-related story when our PIO got radioed about a huge bust involving nearly 1,000 pounds of pot. We booked on over to document the rare event. It turns out the drugs were hidden inside these concrete pillars the Customs and Border Protection agents had to bust them open with a forklift. Made for some darn good video, if I do say so myself.
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2007-03-25
Nancy Jarrell’s 16-year-old daughter Lacey died in a car wreck last year. Nancy is still trying to cope with the tragedy, but she was open, honest and emotional when talking about her devastating loss (you can find links to the larger package on my ‘Special Projects’ page).
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The Inland Press Association just announced winners of their newspaper Web site contest. The Star took first place in the ‘Creative Use of Multimedia’ category for the series ‘Sealing Our Border: Why it Won’t Work‘. For more on my contribution to the series, please scroll down the page or visit the Special Projects page.
The following is from the Inland Press Association’s Web site:
Category 2 — Creative Use of Multimedia
Criteria: Presentation that enhances the impact of the story by combining the use of static features with other media, including, but not limited to: audio, video and animation. First Place: Arizona Daily Star/azstarnet.com - “Sealing Our Border: Why It Won’t Work”
From the first hard-strumming guitar notes and rough-rolling video footage of the U.S.-Mexican border to the shots of immigrants attempting to cross under cover of darkness or wading back across the heavily-polluted New River after being thwarted by border guards, this rich multimedia package invites readers to see what it is like to live along the border and witness the constant legal and illegal traffic traveling north and south. Powerful photojournalism, audio and video and well-crafted interactive features help the Azstarnet team explore the answers to questions about whether the U.S. can ever secure its southern border.
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