Life, Death and Committing Journalism Along the U.S. Mexican Border

Tales by journalists Alfredo Corchado and Ricardo Sandoval

Presented by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Links to some of their award-winning coverage by Alfredo Corchado and Ricardo Sandoval

A Brief History of Infamy
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2004/juarez_english/

Mass Grave Leads to Mass Exodus
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/spe/2004/juarez_english/

Mexican Authorities Try to Tie Gangs to Deaths
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/longterm/stories/042204dnintjuarezlinks.2990a.html

Alfredo Corchado is Mexico Bureau Chief for the Dallas Morning News. Last year he was awarded the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot award, honoring his years of groundbreaking coverage of Latin America and the U.S. – Mexico border. Corchado is a native of Durango, Mexico. He was raised in Northern California and El Paso, Texas, and since 1984 has written award-winning articles about life and death along the border – and the region’s social and cultural vibrancy – for the Wall Street Journal, the El Paso Herald Post and the Morning News. Corchado also has written extensively about Cuba, U.S. policy toward Latin America, and the Mexican Diaspora throughout the United States.

Ricardo Sandoval is Assistant City Editor at the Sacramento Bee. As a foreign correspondent in Latin America from 1997 to 2005, he covered crime, migration and insurgent movements in Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela – work that earned him awards from the Overseas Press Club and the InterAmerican Press Association. A self-described “border rat” and native of Tijuana, Sandoval has written for California and Texas newspapers since 1981. In 1997 he co-authored the biography, “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.”

They will be introduced by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Professor Lydia Chavez.

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