The open ocean is about as foreign as it gets. No country can claim it. And as a result, a whole lot of bad stuff happens there. Ian Urbina (@ian_urbina) talks about his series of stories for The New York Times about lawlessness at sea, that later became a book and now a non-profit journalism initiative called The Outlaw Ocean Project. Urbina will also talk about how his stories were made into two Hollywood movies and how he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer for reporting on the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.

Countries featured: Libya, USA, Singapore

Publications featured: New York Times, New Yorker

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

The Outlaw Ocean Project website - https://bit.ly/3NVRkac

Ian’s series on fracking Drilling Down - https://nyti.ms/3tfSN3e

His piece on magazine crews that inspired American Honey - https://nyti.ms/3xaFQca

The Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on Eliot Spitzer - https://bit.ly/3zeN9Ct

His book Outlaw Ocean - https://amzn.to/3zeJFji

His New Yorker piece on Libya - https://bit.ly/38PFcc5

Behind the scenes on reporting the Libya piece - https://bit.ly/3aHLkDR

Jennifer Senior’s 9/11 piece for the Atlantic - https://bit.ly/39YDVMT

Luke Mogelson’s article Among the Insurrectionists - https://bit.ly/3alcd05

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