Yvonne Latty is the director of the Reporting New York and Reporting the Nation multimedia graduate programs at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She is the author of In Conflict: Iraq War Veterans Speak Out on Duty, Loss and the Fight to Stay Alive (Polipoint Press 2006) and the critically acclaimed We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq (Harper Collins/Amistad 2004). She worked for the Philadelphia Daily News and is the director/producer of the award winning documentary Sacred Poison.
When I decided to become a journalist, I believed that I had to choose between writing and my love for visual imagery and sound. David Gonzalez’s “House Afire,” a three-part New York Times series on the Pentecostal Church, … Read more
