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Alumni News – Journalism

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Surveillance on the US Mex Border

Francesca d’Annunzio (UTV 2025, inaugural Puente New Collaborative Fellow), a staff reporter at the Texas Observer, published this groundbreaking investigation into the use of AI and advanced surveillance technology for under-the-radar data sharing between the Mexican state of Chihuahua and the state of Texas.

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Cartels in the Mangroves

América Armenta (2024 Robert L. Breen fellow), a freelance reporter based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, reports from the hidden waterways at the heart of the country’s inland fisheries, where clandestine narco labs are producing metamphetamines for export to the US with a cocktail of ingredients that are destroying livelihoods and contaminating the environment. The series, created with support from Quinto Elemento, is also available in English on ElPais.com

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Time and the Creative Process

Mexican journalist Diego Courchay (UTV (2018 Robert L. Breen Fellow) is now an associate editor for the Delacorte Review, a joint project of the Columbia School of Journalism and the Delacorte Center.

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When Deed Becomes Word

Simone Scriven (UTV 2019, journalism) has written a stunning, magisterial piece that traces the evolution of the word ecocide as a term analogous to genocide, a concept that is gradually moving into the world of international law.