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Jerry Kammer

Jerry Kammer, a 1994 Nieman Fellow, was a reporter for The Navajo Times, Gallup Independent, The Arizona Republic, and the Washington bureau of Copley News Service. He now works at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.

An Opposing Viewpoint: The Struggle to Be Heard

I have a bone to pick with The Washington Post, particularly the editorial page.The Post has repeatedly opened its pages to the advocacy and analysis of former journalist Tamar Jacoby.…
October 22, 2009

Kammer Replies to Tamar Jacoby’s Letter to the Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITORRead Tamar Jacoby’s original letterTamar Jacoby is a graceful writer and able advocate of the proposition that Congress should provide low-wage employers easy access to deep international…
October 22, 2009

Adapting Investigative Reporting Skills to Policy Advocacy

‘My motto remains what it was when I reported on immigration: always hard-headed, never hard-hearted.’
September 11, 2009

Digital Records Reveal Corruption on Capitol Hill

The 2006 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting was awarded to the staffs of The San Diego Union-Tribune and Copley News Service, “with notable work by Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer,”…
March 15, 2008