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CROSSING BORDERS: WHEN INVESTIGATIONS GO INTERNATIONAL
Learning global reporting techniques is critical these days as nations become more tightly interwoven through crime, money and immigration. Investigative reporting examples from the March/April 2001 issue of The IRE Journal show you are never too small or too far removed to discover why events half a world away may directly impact your community.

DRUG FLOW: Orlando, San Juan reporters team up to track heroin
By Henry Pierson Curtis of The Orlando Sentinel

Reporter follows the trail of local crime to the source.

Tracking international sources
By Nora Paul and Neil Reisner

Web site resources for researching international stories.

UNDERGROUND EXISTENCE for immigrants working in U.S.
By Ned Glascock of the (Raleigh, North Carolina) News & Observer

Reporter documents the impact of immigration on his community.

Global reporting network unveils TOBACCO SECRETS
By Maud S. Beelman of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Documents reveal the "well-known secrets" of tobacco smuggling.

The future of foreign coverage
By Michael Parks, Columbia Journalism Review

Veteran foreign correspondent examines the response of U.S. media to foreign news coverage after Sept. 11.

It's a small world
By Charles Layton, American Journalism Review

Some editors are waking up to the fact that "foreign" news can really hit home.

Journalists under fire
By Mark Fitzgerald, Editor & Publisher

With methods as brutal as murder and as subtle as a tax audit, a multitude of enemies assaults the Latin American press.

Santos' story: editor in a time of cholera
by Mark Fitzgerald, Editor & Publisher

A well-known Colombian journalist faces death threats in one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist.

'The darkest stain is Cuba'
by Mark Fitzgerald, Editor & Publisher

Tactics of the Castro government to suppress the independent press that is in its infancy in Cuba.

Press freedom in Latin America: a survey
by Mark Fitzgerald, Editor & Publisher

A rundown of the state of press freedom in 15 countries.

More windows on the world
by Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher

American news media have increased their international coverage, focusing on its local impact and on economic consequences.