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Jack Dodson

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Haifa, Lima, Maine
As seen in: Medium, BBC, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Substack, VICE, VICE UK, The Intercept, Metacritic, The American Journal of Human Genetics and
Covers:  Mainly focused on law & poverty, human rights, immigration, criminal justice & corruption.
Doesn't Cover: Nothing's out.
Journalist & filmmaker. Focused on areas where law and justice are not the same thing. Freelancer, but mainly building @entropyjourn with colleagues.

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Jack Dodson’s Biography

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I’m a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker living in NYC, and I’ve been working as a reporter in various media since 2009. I am currently a student at the Columbia Journalism School in both the Documentary and Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting programs.

My particular interest as a reporter is in issues of poverty and international development, as well as climate change and how it impacts poor communities. These interests inform my reporting on immigration, health and drug abu…

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Immigrants Have Varying Views on the Path to Citizenship

Immigrants Have Varying Views on the Path to Citizenship

You wouldn't know it from listening to the discussion of immigration policy on the presidential campaign trai…

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From one side of the 7-line to the other, two different worlds of immigration

From one side of the 7-line to the other, two different worlds of immigration

This was a piece for my reporting class at Columbia University, covering the complex situation of immigration…

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Health for All

Health for All

Health for All is a short documentary about health access issues in India and the organizations that seek to …

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UNINSURED: In the midst of immigration reform debates, health insurance presents a complex problem

UNINSURED: In the midst of immigration reform debates, health insurance presents a complex problem

A written piece for reporting class at Columbia University. This was an account of the issues facing undocume…

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The Marine

The Marine

Kenny Restrepo runs a tattoo shop in Brooklyn, which he opened after serving in the Marines and the NYPD. …

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The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room is a documentary feature about three American college students traveling to Sri Lank…

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Utah City is selling a lifestyle most of America forgot was possible

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| Utah Business Verified
One question has come up a lot for Sean Feeney: “Where will you open your first restaurant outside of New York?” As the owner of nine restaurants — eight in Brooklyn — he has spent a decade building a brand in and around the city. The question of where to open next is daunting in the culinary world, with the focus often on cities like Las Vegas and Los Angeles, or international locales like Dubai.
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Utah City is selling a lifestyle most of America forgot was possible

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| EIN News
One question has come up a lot for Sean Feeney: “Where will you open your first restaurant outside of New York?” As the owner of nine restaurants — eight in Brooklyn — he has spent a decade building a brand in and around the city. The question of where to open next is daunting in the culinary world, with the focus often on cities like Las Vegas and Los Angeles, or international locales like Dubai.
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Drones and air taxis: How Utah became a testing ground for the future

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| Utah Business Verified
This story appears in the June 2026 issue of Utah Business. Subscribe. Toni Drummond needs to pinch herself sometimes. As co-founder of the drone company Future Flight Global, she gets to help create a real-life version of The Jetsons: air taxis carting people and packages from location to location, pilots stopping to pick up their passengers and then taking off into the air, and drones becoming a more fixed part of everyday life.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing intern at The Times Record in Brunswick, Maine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Nope. But they are gorgeous.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To engage with the wider world; to be curious, scrutinizing and analytical; to set the record straight and pursue the truth in all the noise.