Erin Siegal
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Erin Siegal is an Ethics and Justice in Journalism Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, and a Redux Pictures photographer. She was a 2008-2009 fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Siegal is the author of Finding Fernanda, which won a 2011 James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists.

Currently, Siegal writes a public records and Freedom of Information column for the Columbia Journalism Review called "The FOIA Watchdog." She's contributed to various publications, including the New York Times, Time, Reuters, Newsweek, Businessweek, Rolling Stone, and more. She's based in Tijuana, Mexico. To learn more, please visit www.erinsiegal.com or follow her on Twitter @erinsiegal.

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Losing the Count: Gender Disparity in the Mainstream Media

(1) Comments | Posted March 7, 2012 | 5:19 PM

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Source: VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Click here to view the entire series of pie charts.

Over at the Columbia Journalism Review my latest column takes a look at gender disparity in...

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Mexico Adoption Bust Reveals Vast Child Trafficking Ring

(104) Comments | Posted February 29, 2012 | 4:30 PM

A child trafficking ring uncovered by Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara, Jalisco, has not only operated since the 1980's, a decade earlier than previously reported, but has also provided hundreds of children to adoptive families in other countries. The story began unraveling on January 9, 2012, after...

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Excerpt: Finding Fernanda

(8) Comments | Posted November 1, 2011 | 4:44 PM

What began as my 2009 Master's project as a Fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism quickly evolved into a complex investigation. Among the details: $30,000 U.S. dollars, four Guatemalan "orphans," one nonprofit evangelical Christian adoption agency, a family-run child-trafficking ring, one...

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