Features

Reporting on the Deaths of Those Who Make the Journey North

‘With the mounting anti-illegal immigration backlash, readers have complained more and more about the stories we do about the deaths.’

Death in the Desert

The Arizona Republic started tracking undocumented immigrant deaths in 2003 using medical examiner, foreign consulate, and law enforcement reports. Susan Carroll wrote the following words to introduce a published list…

A Visual Telling of Immigrants’ Stories

Reporters, photographers and videographers combined their skills to create a multimedia presentation with content unique to the online experience.

The Tribune’s Stories Reach a Spanish-Speaking Audience

Using corporate synergy, ‘Crossing Borders’ gets picked up by Hoy newspapers, and Hispanic readers begin to discuss illegal immigration online.

Immigrants Grapple With Man and ‘The Beast’

Photos and captions by Heather Stone/Chicago Tribune.Daisy Méndez Mendoza of Honduras cries as she describes how she was raped three years ago on her first trip across the border between…

Shrinking Space, Tight Budgets — And a Story Needing to Be Told

‘Despite the necessity to trim back on our ambition, we held tight to our vision of sharing the emotion of these women's stories with our readers.’

The Long Journey Captured in Single Moments

A project about women's global migration found a home in many different media within the Tribune Company.

On Ways of the Road

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Wealth Is Displayed, While Poverty Goes Unnoticed By Many in the Mexican Press

‘What one almost never reads or hears about in Mexico is the immense gap dividing the more well-to-do Mexicans from the native Indians ….’

When the Role Race Plays in Societal Gaps Is Unspoken

A journalist faces ‘obstacles — some institutional, some personal — that stand like an invisible line between covering race and covering it up.’