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Title
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Alessandra Bergamin, Oral History Interview, 2023
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Performer
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Alessandra Bergamin
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Interviewer
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Dr. You Li
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Description
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Alessandra Bergamin is an award-winning Australian investigative journalist who divides her time between Melbourne and Los Angeles. Bergamin covers the intersection of environmental conflict and human rights around the world. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, In These Times, Harper’s Magazine, National Geographic, and The New Yorker.com, among others. In 2022, Bergamin was honored as a Distinguished Journalist by the Society of Professional Journalists, Los Angeles in the newspaper/print (smaller circulation) category. She has received fellowships and grants from many entities to investigate environmental and human rights issues.
In this interview, Bergamin reviewed her experiences and takeaways from reporting labor and human trafficking issues during the pandemic. She shared approaches and advice to developing and cultivating sources who reside remotely and in hard-to-reach communities. She also commented on the importance of mental health and the challenges of being a freelancer and woman journalist. Finally, she reflected on the meaning of the pandemic to her personally and professionally. She called for more understanding of the differential impact of the pandemic on different populations.
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Exact Date
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6-2-2023
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Subject
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Eastern Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University Archives, Journalism, Women in journalism, United States, Covid-19, Environmental justice, pandemic, mental health, social equity, freelance journalist, trauma reporting
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Publisher
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Eastern Michigan University Archives
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Run Time
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53 minutes, 33 seconds
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Language
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English
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Rights
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Copyright to the audio resource and its transcript, headshot, and stories is held by the content creator, author, artist, or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any other format without written permission of the copyright owner, Eastern Michigan University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).
Bergamin audio