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On 28, Jun 2011 | In Print Journalism | By erikgerman
Picking a Fight: On the front lines of America’s immigration war
For The Daily
The only assignment that ever caused me to vomit from heatstroke, this print piece for The Daily illustrated the unintended consequences of a tough anti-immigration law passed by Georgia in 2011. Latino farm workers fled the state, crops rotted in the fields and farmers tried filling the gaps with jobless ex-convicts. Neither they, nor this reporter, did well stooping to harvest crops in the 100-degree heat.
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On 19, Jun 2011 | In Multi-Platform Storytelling Print Journalism Video Production | By erikgerman
Burning Desire: Following the elite hotshot team as they fight the Arizona wildfire
For The Daily
As crews battled the largest wildfire in Arizona’s history, we convinced the U.S. Forest Service to allow us to profile one of their hotshot teams – elite firefighters sent to handle the toughest parts of the blaze. In this multiplatform package for The Daily I reported, wrote, shot and co-produced alongside my wife, Solana Pyne, during 48 hours of non-stop work that left us smelling like smoke for days.
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On 01, Feb 2011 | In Print Journalism | By erikgerman
My Father’s Dream: Investigating a pyramid scheme that bankrupted my father
Ebook
A best-selling Kindle Single about a tantalizing offer to anyone fallen on hard times: Here’s a business that promises to make you $150,000, in your spare time, in just a couple of years. All it costs to get started is $250—and a dream. A salesman from the network marketing company Amway made this pitch to my father in the early 1980s and touched off the darkest chapter in my family’s past. Two decades later, armed with a reporter’s notebook, I investigated the grim reality behind a company that promises deliverance in the service of selling soap.
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On 17, Dec 2006 | In Print Journalism | By erikgerman
Zimbabwe, a Falling Nation: Exposing the plight of prostitution to pay tuition
For Newsday
In 2006, my wife Solana Pyne and I snuck across the border into Zimbabwe and risked prison for “committing journalism.” Once an economic powerhouse, this failing nation in Southern Africa had outlawed reporting that could expose the regime’s repression and failed economic policies. While Solana shot a hidden-camera piece for CNN, I worked under cover for Newsday. This print story exposed the plight of girls so desperate to attend college they prostituted themselves to pay tuition.
On 09, Jan 2006 | In Print Journalism | By erikgerman
Report from New Orleans: Can this neighborhood be saved?
For Newsday
Covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for Newsday. For this piece, I interviewed victims still picking through the wreckage for a story on the fierce controversy over rebuilding New Orleans’ impoverished Lower 9th Ward.
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