“I never expected to become a real reporter. While the other students in my first journalism class could go out into the community to interview sources, my options were limited. As an inmate, the only people I could interview were other prisoners and the guards.” —Mario Koran, a member of the NYT Local Investigations Fellowship, which helps reporters develop the skills to tell investigative stories in their communities.
Ismail Auwal
1mo
The power of local journalism, this is what happens when people are find themselves and when they get the chance to learn.
What an incredible journey to learn about.
This is stupendous!
Lyndsay Jones
1mo
This is beyond cool. Amazing work.
Thanks for sharing. This is excellent.
Wendy Fry
1mo
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
You have a great story!
Ray Perry
1mo
Amazing Testimony
Educator/Journalist
1moThis is exactly what I’ve needed to hear as another journalist who went from jail to journalism. I was inspired to enter the feild after my endless kites in jail were written well enough to scare the guards into taking the health needs of women in my pod seriously. This was at a for-profit jail in Texas where they turned the pregnant and disabled women’s health pod into another trustee pod for the men working as servants for the jail to reduce time on their sentences. I pitched this (among other vital stories to the Times [please see my Twitter account @jwaller84 for more evidence of RAMPANT corruption in Texas that our newsrooms won’t cover] and still have not heard back. I’m working as a music journalist now because they silenced me but anytime you want to see evidence of what’s going on here please let me know. You seem like someone who might care about the many wrongful-George Floyd congruous- deaths of inmates here. I hope.