Lorne Matalon
Lorne Matalon is the 2016-2017 Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and a Vermont resident. Prior to his fellowship, he was the Texas correspondent for the Fronteras Desk, a collaboration of NPR member stations focused on the Mexico-US border and Latin America. He is currently a contributor to CBC Radio and files regularly for Marketplace.
In addition to the border, Matalon has reported from Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Panama and multiple locations in Mexico. He began reporting from Latin America in 2007 from Mexico City for The World, co-produced by the BBC World Service & Public Radio International. Matalon's series on killings and land displacement driven by energy development in borderland Mexico was awarded a 2016 National Edward R Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting.
His articles and photographs have appeared in the Boston Globe, the San Diego Union-Tribune, La Recherche, Paris and The World Today, published by Chatham House, London and ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America. He has produced three television documentaries; "Amazon War, " "Sudan: Freedom for Sale" and "Guantanamo."
Matalon has a BA in American History from Middlebury College and an MA from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
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Over the first weekend in April, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 20 people for entering the country illegally in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York.
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More and more people are walking illegally into Canada as President Trump cracks down on immigrants in the United States. The increased number is testing a nation that historically welcomes refugees.
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Migrants who believe the U.S. is more likely to deport them are heading into Canada, many on foot. They're taking advantage of a loophole that says they won't be turned back right away.
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The flow of people seeking refugee status in Canada has grown exponentially in recent months. More people have walked into the province of Quebec since...
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A border station linking a Mexican village called Boquillas to a U.S. national park has reopened in west Texas. Before it was sealed, the border had been an abstract one that people on either side ignored. When it closed, Boquillas' economy and residents felt it hard.
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The man who leads Haiti's national police force, Mario Andresol, sees widespread corruption amid hopes for democracy as a new president takes power. Andresol argues that Haitians will enjoy greater freedom if his purge of corrupt police is successful.