ProPublicaMay 26, 2023

How We Reached Workers While Reporting on Dairy Farm Conditions
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As we reported on dairy farms in #Wisconsin, we knew we’d have to get creative in how we got our articles to the affected workers.

Here’s how ProPublica reporters Melissa Sanchez & Maryam Jameel went beyond a simple translation to reach dairy farm workers.

#Journalism #Newstodon #Reporting #Dairy #Farms #Farm #Safety #Labor #Children #Workers

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How We Reached Workers While Reporting on Dairy Farm Conditions

As we reported on dairy farms in Wisconsin, we knew we’d have to get creative in how we got our articles to the affected workers. Here’s how reporters Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel went beyond a simple translation to reach dairy farm workers.

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ICYMI, Here's the first piece of our ongoing investigation in this series:

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-jefferson-rodriguez?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Death on a Dairy Farm: What Really Happened to 8-Year-Old Jefferson Rodríguez

When an 8-year-old Nicaraguan boy was run over on a Wisconsin dairy farm, authorities blamed his father and closed the case. Meanwhile, the community of immigrant workers knows a completely different story.

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May 26, 2023 at 12:59pmWeb
Show threadDcircleFMay 26, 2023
@ProPublica MAGA America votes for walls and discrimination, yet they use immigrants as low wage workers so their businesses can survive. This is a sad story.
Show threadRhi, the lions and lambsMay 26, 2023

@ProPublica Thank you for this, for the labour of getting this story to the people most affected, and for the original story about Jefferson. (Heartbreaking and unsurprising.)

I suspect a lot of people don't realise that there's a substantial population of Latine folk outside of urban centers in WI, very often in essential labor roles.