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Article: Adapting investigative reporting skills to policy advocacy: 'my motto remains what it was when I reported on immigration: always hard-headed, never hard-hearted.'.(Nieman Notes)(Viewpoint essay)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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At the end of 2007 I took the now-familiar buyout route as my organization, Copley News Service, began a slide toward oblivion. A year later I began a new job, with a title that feels elaborate to someone who for three decades was happy to list "reporter" as my line of work. I'm a senior research fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington think-tank that advocates reduced immigration.
It's a big shift to be an advocate. But I approach my work here with the same fundamental goal that animated my reporting. I want to help inform public discussion about a complex, rancorous issue that is important to the future of our country. My motto remains ...