Latino USA’s Antonia Cerejido wins Medill’s first Cecilia Vaisman award
By Carolina Gonzalez Medill Reports Antonia Cerejido, an award-winning audio journalist for NPR’s Latino USA, received the first Cecilia Vaisman Award for Multimedia Reporters Tuesday from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. In a ceremony attended by Cerejido’s family, Vaisman’s husband investigative reporter Gary Marx and Medill faculty and students, Cerejido thanked everyone for the […]
Photography exhibit gives candid and ominous view of what immigration detention facilities are really like
By Carolina Gonzalez Medill Reports Barren land, industrial facilities, deserts and then a small concrete building in the middle of the void. These are the scenes portrayed in the 12 panoramic photographs covering the walls of the Gage Gallery in Chicago’s Loop. Greg Constantine, a famed American social justice photographer, unveiled his latest work this […]
Should the U.S. continue prosecuting illegal immigrants? Northwestern community split but majority favors decriminalization
By Carolina Gonzalez Medill Reports Northwestern University students were divided at a recent campus debate on whether the U.S. should decriminalize illegal immigration, offering arguments both in favor and against the Democratic presidential candidate proposals to repeal or rewrite the existing law. Sachin Shukla, a sophomore studying viola performance and the main debate proponent in […]
