from The New York Times
It has an editorial staff of one and annual advertising revenues of less than $2,000. It charges its subscribers nothing and pays most contributors the same. Mapping the settlement of Latino poultry workers is its idea of a sexy piece.
But for a growing number of followers, it has become an important read.
Every moment has its magazine, and for the age of migration it is the Migration Information Source, a weekly (more or less) online journal followed worldwide by scholars, policy makers and the occasional migrant in distress. “My soul’s dying every moment,” an Iranian asylum seeker wrote last year in an e-mail message from Greece. “Give me an answer.”
Many readers discover the Source simply by googling the word “immigrant” and finding a link to migrationinformation.org among the millions of citations.
Read on
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
A Tiny Staff, Tracking People Across the Globe
