July 25, 2015: Dan Barry: New York Times: Black South Carolina Trooper Explains Why He Helped a White Supremacist
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![]() Z-NEWS NOTES: Mar 7, 2014: POV, the long-running PBS documentary series, and The New York Times Co. have formed a partnership to present a series of online-only documentaries, with companion articles and interviews, over the course of 2014. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The new docus will be available on both organizations’ websites, at pbs.org/pov and nytimes.com. Partnership will kick off this Saturday, March 8, with half-hour film “The Men of Atalissa” by New York Times columnist and reporter Dan Barry and Kassie Bracken, a video journalist at the paper. The docu tells the story of a few dozen men with intellectual disabilities in an Iowa farming community who lived in an old schoolhouse on top of a hill — and the day-to-day abuse they endured. (SOURCE: Todd Spangler: Variety: "PBS’s POV, New York Times Pact on Digital Documentary Series")
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Dan Barry (b. c. 1950) is a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, where he has written the "This Land" column since January 2007. A Pulitzer Prize-winner, Barry is the author of three books.