Eileen Truax
Verified
(She/Her)
- Journalist, Freelance
- Content Director, porCausa Foundation
- Editor, Revista 5W
Barcelona, Mexico City, United States
As seen in:
Revista 5W,
porCausa Foundation,
Medium,
The New York Times,
The New York Times en Español,
El País,
EL PAÍS América,
The Washington Post,
Washington Post Opinions,
Barnes and Noble,
El Universal (Mexico),
La Afición
and
Covers:
Migration, borders, asylum, DreamAct, education, Mexico-US relation, Politics.
Doesn't Cover:
Drug trafficking.
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Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Making "informative synthesis" for decision makers –before internet. We started at 5am cutting and pasting news (w/ scissors and glue).
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes. I used a computer for the first time in 1995, when I was 25.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Lois Lane.
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be sensitive enough to understand the world, and fair enough to tell it in an accurate way.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter.
Who do you wish followed you?
Decision makers. I think that when we talk about immigration, they only read and hear what they want.
Why did you become a journalist?
Because I wanted to understand why.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The story of Dreamers. I started following them and doing interviews way before this became a "newsworthy" issue –and wrote a book about it.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Read, read, read, write, repeat.
What's your favorite drink?
Coffee.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In my phone, or reading a print magazine or book.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The New Yorker.
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That immigration = problem. Is common in media to talk about immigrants or immigration as something that has to be solved or "fixed".
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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