The long road to a Pulitzer. Now a Mexico-based reporter for Vice, Emily Green (@emilytgreen) has had a couple career booms and busts. The WSJ job that doesn't pan out leads her into radio reporting. The pandemic leads her to flee Mexico. But you never know, maybe you'll be sitting in your childhood bedroom and feeling sorry for yourself, when you get that call about the big award.
Countries featured: Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Philippines, USA
Publications featured: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, PRI’s The World, The Daily Beast, Vice News
Emily discusses going to the Philippines on a Fulbright grant after college (5:00), the wrong job at WSJ leads to working in hometown radio then Sacramento then the SF Chronicle (12:21), moving to Mexico to freelance (19:57), some lessons for freelancers (27:18), how a Vice story on a migrant kidnapping in Mexico led to an NPR piece that won a Pulitzer (34:00), a couple of stories that got away (47:35), a short doc for Vice on the massacre of migrants in Mexico after they were deported from the U.S. (50:24) and the lightning round (58:20).
Here are links to some of the things we talked about:
Emily's WaPo story on a Filipino judge - https://wapo.st/3sdDTsC
Her first story in Vice on the migrant caravan - https://bit.ly/3iK85bF
Her original story on Nuevo Laredo kidnapping for Vice - https://bit.ly/3AL64Cr
Her Pulitzer winning audio story - https://bit.ly/3AF5Dt3
Pulitzer winner page for the story - https://bit.ly/2UgJOR7
Her Vice doc on Guatemalan deportees killed in Mexico - https://bit.ly/37IVXkQ
Day X podcast - https://nyti.ms/3lWTDzc
Lisa Hagen's podcast on guns - https://n.pr/2UftUGG
Jon Lee Anderson's ride along with Chavez - https://bit.ly/2VVD0Zu
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