Fernanda Santos (fernandasantos.com) is a reporter who was the New York Times Phoenix Bureau Chief for five years. She is currently Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Practice at ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism and is an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

We discuss her interesting career path into journalism from her immigration from Brazil, to work in a small town paper,  to the Times and the Post, two of journalism’s iconic publications.

We also talk about immigration and immigrants, border issues, the state of journalism and other issues.  But mostly we listen to a very interesting person’s perspectives.

In that sense this is our third consecutive “interesting person” show.  If you missed either of the last two shows, with Ernest Calderon or Francine Hardaway (or other recent shows), podcasts can be accessed at www.ktar.com as can this show after it is broadcast.

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