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Via KobreGuide to the Web’s Best Multimedia & Video Journalism:

From Time Magazine: Some Texans are not allowed to cross the Mexican border because their birth certificates were ruled invalid due to an insurmountable technicality.

From KobreGuide: Silvario Vasquez was born in Texas and owns a ten-acre farm near the Mexican border. A new post-9/11 government policy requiring a passport, and not just a driver’s license, prevents him from crossing the border to Mexico — a situation made more ironic by the fact that he spent nearly three decades as a U.S. border patrol agent. (Read more…)

Length: 7:31
Video Journalist: Silas Tyler
Associate Producer: Natasha Del Toro
Supervising Producer: Craig Duff

The Digital Journalist: August 2009

Feature article: Seamus Murphy: A Darkness Visible by Beverly Spicer.

Seamus Murphy describes photography as “part history and part magic.” This brief description could be a title for Murphy’s entire archive, as he is the embodiment of the soulful photojournalist

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The Digital Journalist: July 2009

Feature article/gallery: Homeland by Nina Berman.

The title of the book comes from President George W. Bush, who introduced the word “homeland” shortly after September 11. Previously unfamiliar in American speech, the word sounded both sinister and soothing, filled with ideological import of mysterious origin. Was it British, or of Nazi Germany? Or was the word drawn from fiction, a made-up world existing in a fairy tale?

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