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Goals
- An opportunity to increase their background and demystify the complexities of one of
the most crucial issues facing the nation, immigration policy and its related issues.
- A break from the pressure of daily deadlines to meet with experts in the immigration
field from around the country.
- An opportunity to meet other journalists who are facing the same issue in their
newsrooms and in their communities.
- An opportunity to meet informally with those on the frontlines of the immigration policy
issue: the community, the experts, the policymakers, and the migrants.
Pressroom Articles
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|  "I've covered immigration off and on during my more than 20 years in journalism. I wrote extensively about the 1986 immigration reform act when I was writing for New York Newsday... It is a subject close to my heart... I am an immigrant...
The Learning Institute for Working Journalists gave me invaluable knowledge about a subject - border issues - I understood in the abstract, but really knew little of. It was a rigorous, scholarly program. The trip to the border, in Mexico and on the U.S. side, was an eye-opener. It was an incredibly educational fantastic program. I'm honored to be one of the participants."
-Jessie Mangaliman
Immigration Writer
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April 18-21, 2006: Reporting on Immigration
The Learning Institute for Working Journalists is a comprehensive four-day program to offer
10 journalists to meet and talk with those that are on the frontlines of a controversy that
has no easy answers. Since the 2000 U.S. Census, studies are showing dramatic increases
in migration in various parts of the country that have typically not seen immigration as a
priority. There is pressure on U.S. journalists to effectively cover this issue; and many times,
there is no one reporter assigned to this beat. In border states such as Texas, Arizona, New
Mexico, Florida and California, border or immigration beats were added during the last two
decades. Writers covering traditional beats such as enforcement, health care, and business
are also finding immigration an issue.
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MDPI, now a model for future McCormick Foundation
institutes, will remain at the lead in offering more topics for
the national media to consider that are important to the
Latino community. MDPI will propose at least one LIWJ a
year. The effect of these projects reaches millions of readers
through the stories written by LIWJ fellows nationwide.
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2008 Program
