Kim Ives on Muck Rack

Kim Ives

(He/Him)
  • Editor and Investigative Journalist, Haiti Liberte
New York
As seen in: The Intercept, teleSUR, The Nation, Global Research, Jacobin, Mint Press News, CounterPunch, Prensa Latina, Indybay, Popular Resistance and
Covers:  Haiti, International Politics, U.S. Politics
Journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio and television commentator.
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Interview

How is social media changing news?

It facilitates research and making known one's own reporting.

Why did you become a journalist?

1974

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Dive in. Choose your colleagues and the editors you work for carefully. Understand their political stance, especially if they deny having one

What's the worst pitch you ever got?

To make a 16mm feature documentary (Bitter Cane) under the Duvalier dictatorship in the early 1980s. It turned out to be the best pitch.

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That Haiti is a basket case. On the contrary, Haiti and its people are always in the vanguard of human history.
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