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Fernanda Santos

Bias on the Border

I spent a few days this summer training a group of journalists in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, how to report on the Central…

6 min readJul 23, 2019

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Bias on the Border

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Fernanda Santos

The (nonfiction) books about citizenship and American identity my friends told me I should read

The other day, I asked my friends on Facebook to recommend books that dwell on questions of citizenship and American identity, and told…

2 min readSep 19, 2017

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Fernanda Santos

Saying goodbye to The New York Times (but not to journalism)

Friday, July 14, is my last day at The New York Times. I am taking the buyout.

2 min readJul 12, 2017

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Why — and how — I write

I sent this last week to my newsletter subscribers. (You could be one of them, too.) It talks a bit about how I write, and why I write.

2 min readJun 13, 2017

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Writing a book was the hardest thing — and greatest thing — I’ve ever done

When I was a little girl, my parents had a nickname for me: cabeça dura. It’s pronounced KAH-beh-sah DOO-rah, and it means “hard-headed” in…

2 min readMay 7, 2017

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Survival Tips for Aspiring Journalists

This spring, I taught a seminar in short-form narrative at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Friends of…

3 min readApr 29, 2017

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Survival Tips for Aspiring Journalists

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19 lessons on reporting from the editor of The Boston Globe’s Pulitzer-winning Spotlight team (yes…

One of the perks of teaching a journalism class at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University is that I’m…

1 min readMar 16, 2017

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“Speak English!”

I was driving back home from a meeting on Wednesday and craving a cup of coffee. The drive-thru line was too long, so I parked, walked in…

4 min readNov 11, 2016

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Screw you, Depeche Mode!

I took my first step toward the summit of Piestewa Peak walking like an Egyptian. By the time I got up there— 1,180 feet, a quart of water…

5 min readJul 3, 2015

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Fernanda Santos

Fernanda Santos

Award-winning author of “The Fire Line.” Journalist. Professor. Immigrant. Mother. "Overall Badass." Writer of random things, published here.

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