Carlos Prieto

My name is Carlos Prieto, and I'm one of the people that helped make The Daily.

As part of our reporting on immigration, we heard from this woman crossing one of the most dangerous stretches of land on the whole planet to get to the United States.

I knew that she was from Venezuela, which is where I'm also from.

But what I found out is that not only was she from the same city that I grew up in, but she was also from the same neighborhood.

She was describing parks and plazas and streets where I spent a lot of my childhood.

She was a woman that I might have encountered at some point in my life.

It made me feel an extra responsibility to find a way for our listeners to feel like they understood her and her story.

What makes The Daily special is that we try to understand every story with that level of closeness so that our listeners can really connect with the humans in the middle of a news event.

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