New York Times’ Nod to upcoming IRP documentary

The New York Times on Monday featured a media story on ‰”Rape In The Fields,” a documentary produced and reported by the Investigative Reporting Program. It wasn’t just the harrowing subject of the IRP’s hour-long documentary “Òrampant sexual abuse among female farm workers that caught the NYT’s attention but the novel partnership that evolved around the making of the film. The IRP wanted the film to be seen not only by PBS Frontline’s audience but also by the largely Hispanic community of farm workers who are often the victims of sexual abuse and who have suffered in silence for generations.

So IRP Director Lowell Bergman approached Univision and “Òa first in broadcast history”Óthe Spanish-language network agreed to team up with PBS ‰”Frontline”. The English version will air on PBS on June 25th and in Spanish on June 29th as ‰”ViolaciÌ_n de un Sue̱o” on Univision. Read the full article.