How is a digital project like this edited at the New York Times? And does it go to print? She’s the one figuring out what should be the stories. She’s definitely in touch with me and other editors throughout the project. Very quickly Anemona figured out a great tone for the project, figured out characters whom she wanted to follow, themes that she wanted to touch on. Ingber: Like any project, at first it takes a little time to figure out how it’s going to work.
What are your day-to-day interactions with Anemona like? #Syrian #refugees sit as they wait to cross the #Serbia-#Croatia border in Berkasovo #follow me #onassignment A photo posted by Sergey Ponomarev on at 11:40am PDT She and a videographer, Nabih Bulos, caught police officers spraying an irritant at refugees trying to cross. There were helicopters overhead, police flashing lights, babies crying, barbed wire fences and she’s there. They feel like “this is not us.”Īt one point, Anemona was literally camped out in the field with refugees who were trying to cross border from Serbia to Hungary… and that’s where it was really difficult. She wrote a post about these Iraqi and Syrian young men now in Budapest that are middle class young guys, a law student and a dental student, and they’re horrified that they can’t get out and that they have to sleep on concrete and that they have no choice but to live in these terrible conditions. We’ve really gotten to know this family, learning about the really hard decisions that they’re making every step of the way. She’s mostly focused on the journey, but she’s found a family of 14 refugees that she’s been following. They’re able to show what’s happening in a very immediate way and in a very personal way. They are not helicoptering in to tell this story. Ingber: What’s unique about it is that they have been traveling with this group for a long time. Tell me about the kind of stories she’s getting. Anemona is witnessing agonizing decisions like, “Should I hire a smuggler or use public transportation?”įollow for tweets from train station in Budapest where authorities are refusing to allow refugees thru
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She and photographers started at the Greek border and literally day after day, she and a photographer, Sergey Ponomarev and then Mauricio Lima, and a videographer, Nabih Bulos, were following these families struggling to figure out how to get across the next border and get across the next country, which papers need to be stamped, when they should wait and be cautious and when they should run through.
Ingber: Anemona Hartocollis has been in Greece since before this project began a few weeks ago. How long has Anemona Hartocollis been following the migrant story?
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