Postville itself was a boomtown before the raid — a rare exception in a part of rural America that has been emptying out as the changing economics of agriculture alter the social landscape. Now it is on the brink of economic collapse after losing much of its population and its main employer — all in the middle of the worst recession in decades.
Streetdog Media is the Mexico City-based multimedia production company of journalists Greg Brosnan and Meriden native Jennifer Szymaszek, makers of the documentary ‘In the Shadow of the Raid’.
Brosnan and Szymaszek are freelance video producers for The New York Times. Brosnan has also been a print journalist for Reuters in New York, Guatemala and Mexico, and more recently has written for publications including Business Week and The Houston Chronicle. Szymaszek is also a freelance photojournalist, working mainly for The New York Times.
This project was made possible with grants from the Institute for Justice and Journalism at USC Annenberg, which includes Ford Foundation funding, and from the Washington D.C.-based Fund for Investigative Journalism.
2 comments:
Thanks for the posting, there is a trailer you can watch at www.streetdogmedia.com if anyone is interested. Regards, Greg and Jenn
from the trailer this looks human and compelling... thank you for posting about interesting work being done by local people
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