“The Newcomers” Is an Antidote to Anti-Refugee Rhetoric Invading Politics
Jennifer Oldham interviews Helen Thorpe about "The Newcomers," in which she recounts the time she spent with teenage refugees as they learned English.
Freelance journalist Jennifer Oldham’s work has appeared in USA Today, Delta’s Sky Magazine, Slate, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Denver Business Journal, and elsewhere. She formerly worked as a national correspondent for Bloomberg News and a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. She was part of a Bloomberg News team that won the Economic Journalism Award from the Institute on Political Journalism; a team at USA Today that won first prize for investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association; and a team at the Los Angeles Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 and 1994. She was named a Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Goldschmidt Fellow and a Knight Journalism Foundation Fellow.
Jennifer Oldham interviews Helen Thorpe about "The Newcomers," in which she recounts the time she spent with teenage refugees as they learned English.