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The Outlaw Ocean Project receives DuPont-Columbia Award for investigation on China
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USA Today’s The Excerpt – The High Seas are Rife with Lawlessness
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Ian Urbina Receives 2024 Osborn Elliott Prize and Discusses China’s Role in Global Seafood Industry
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The Broadcast with Paula Gale – Austin Brush
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Green Radio Hour – Pete McKenzie
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Why Should We Care About The Outlaw Ocean – IndoPacific Podcast
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Overseas Press Club of America presents the Roy Rowan Award to the Staff of The Outlaw Ocean Project
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PBS Newshour – The North Koreans Behind Global Seafood
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GastroPod – The history and labor behind all-you-can-eat shrimp
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IntraFish – Behind the damning report on forced labor in China’s seafood sector
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ABC Listen – North Korean workers abused and trapped in China
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NPR All Things Considered – The North Korean Forced Labor Program
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Firing On All Syllables: Interview with The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Dive In with Liz and Sylvia: The Chinese Squid Industry
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CBC’s The Broadcast: China’s Distant Water Fleet
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The Crux Podcast: Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean
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NJ Spotlight News: Human Rights Abuses in China’s Seafood Industry
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BBC World Business Report: Forced Labor in China’s Seafood Industry | The Outlaw Ocean Project
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The Outlaw Ocean Project Testimony at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
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Vice News: Exposing the Truth Behind This Brutal Murder
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Reporting Advice from The Outlaw Ocean Project: 2022 Dart Award Honoree
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The Outlaw Ocean Project’s Ian Urbina Interviewed for EFE:Verde
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TemMais features The Outlaw Ocean Project’s Emmy Win
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Emmy for Outstanding Crime and Justice Coverage awarded to The Outlaw Ocean Project
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L.A. Times Today: The Outlaw Ocean Podcast Exposes Criminal Activities on the High Seas
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Oceans of Solutions — Covering ‘Blue Climate’ and Ocean-Based Climate Strategies
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Interconnected: Reporting the Climate Crisis
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Safety and Security with Journalismfund
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Ocean Ball 2022
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Festival of Ideas
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Foreign Correspondence Podcast: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Global Investigative Journalism Network: Innovative Storytelling
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Yale Law School: A Reconceptualization of the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis
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Central Michigan University Abel Lecture Series: Migrants and Mercenaries on The Outlaw Ocean
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Overseas Press Club Award for Human Rights Reporting Granted to Ian Urbina
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Daily Maverick: The EU, Libyan Jails, and Human Rights Abuses
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University of Pennsylvania: The Migrant Crisis in Libya
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Chain Reaction: The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
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The Listen Podcast: Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean
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U.S. Coast Guard: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing
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The Jerusalem Post: Ian Urbina is transforming investigative reporting on environmental crimes
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Book Dreams Podcast
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The Intelligence from The Economist
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Efecto Naím
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Commonwealth Club of California
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Podcast Rising Tide #47: Still an Outlaw Ocean
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Geomundo: Interview With Ian Urbina
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WPFW Shay Wah Nana: Interview With Ian Urbina
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Libyan American Alliance: The Reality for Refugees and Migrants in Libya
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In Conversation: Matt Desch and Ian Urbina
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Food On The Edge 2021: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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European Parliament – Subcommittee on Human Rights
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DW Inside Europe: Europe’s Complicity in the Brutal Detention of Migrants
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Pod Save the World: Libya’s Secret Migrant Prisons
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Apple News Today: Inside the Secret Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
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CNN’s Amanpour & Co.: Libya’s Detention Centers
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KCRW’s Press Play with Madeleine Brand: Migrants Want New Lives in Europe, Are Caught and Imprisoned in Libya
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Democracy Now: Europe’s Shadow Immigration System
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Columbia Journalism Review’s The Kicker Podcast: Interview with Ian Urbina
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Apple News Today: The Brutal Shadow System Keeping Migrants Out of Europe
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MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes: The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe
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NPR’s All Things Considered: The EU’s Efforts to Outsource Immigration Control to Libya
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2021 FilmAid Annual Gala
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Stern Magazine: Interview with The Outlaw Ocean Project
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The Republic: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Tangentially Speaking Podcast: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Wild Deep Yonder Webinar
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Millennium Magazine: The Impact of the Belt Road Initiative
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Meduza Magazine: Pollution, Illegal Fishing, and More
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IMSE 2021 Virtual conference
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The New York Times’ Campaign Turns the Spotlight on Journalists
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Global Initiative | DEEP DIVE Podcast: IUU Fishing, Human Trafficking, and Arms Smuggling
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Ocean Matters Podcast: Lawlessness at Sea
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The Marine Diaries: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Sea Control Podcast: Sea Blindness
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Pete Buttigieg recommends The Outlaw Ocean
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Carne Cruda: The Outlaw Ocean
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Healthy and Productive Oceans
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El Confidencial: Así Crece la Piratería en Alta Mar
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The Outside Podcast: A quest to expose
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Los Angeles Times: Why the oceans need journalism
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Tortoise Media’s Slow Newscast: Lost at sea
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Africa News Tonight: Fish Stocks at the Point of Collapse
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Follow the data: Protecting the Oceans
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Where Your Fish Comes From: The Outlaw Ocean
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Ecogestiona: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Life at Sea: Reporting Life at Sea
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Conservation X Labs’ Xploring Podcast: Uncovering the secret stories of the ocean
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Salty Cinema & Seafood Sustainability: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Rhythm Passport Podcast: Listen to the label
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Bracenet: Long years of dangerous endeavors
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Radio New Zealand: Congestion and Chaos
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Intelligence Squared: The Wildest and Least Understood
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Catch Our Drift: Survival
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State of the World Conference: Global Implications of Illegal Fishing
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Dive in with Sylvia Earle: Protecting the High Seas
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Using Satellites to Reveal Global Extent of Forced Labor
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Neue Zürcher Zeitung: A World Without Law
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Lecture of Opportunity: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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El Mundo: The Outlaw Ocean Ranked in Best of Non-Fiction
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American Geographical Society: The Future of the World’s Oceans
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Senate Oceans Caucus: The Chinese Distant-Water Fishing Fleet
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War on the Rocks Podcast: Piracy, Kidnapping, and Stowaways
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Love Tropics: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Shack15 Conversations Podcast: A dual masterpiece
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The Lead Podcast: The Outlaw Ocean Project
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Oceans Daily Magazine: An Interview with Ian Urbina
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ABC Radio National: Catch of the day
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La Méduse Déchainée: A bitter taste
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Behind the Story with The Pulitzer Center
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KUOW’s The Record: Outlaws of international waters
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Clarín: Storytelling with Music
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An Exploration at Stanford
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The Charles and Marie Fish Lecture
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London Morning: The Watery West
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ManTalks Podcast: ‘Quite potent and powerful’
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Intelligence Squared: Ghost Boats and Geopolitics
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Bribe, Swindle or Steal
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Forbes: Lax Regulations Made Beirut Blast Possible
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Chatham House: Receivers of stolen goods
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Oceanographic Magazine: Investigating the Squid Industry
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Efecto Naím: The Dark Fleet
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The Nat Geo Storytelling Fellowship
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WKNY’s Green Radio Hour: ‘A dark and inspiring place’
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Reporters Without Borders
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Citizen Chef Podcast: Supply Chains and the Fishing Industry
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Media Impact Funders Forum
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The Foreign Desk: ‘Silent, shady criminality’
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Innovation Talk: ‘A remarkable work’
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Austrian Broadcasting Corporation: Melding storytelling with music
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EarthX Films: Heroes For the Waters
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P.M. Magazine: A global threat
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The Ocean’s Song
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Ian Urbina on Efecto Naím: Part Two
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Rising Tide Podcast: Ocean Issues
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Moisés Naím: Interview with Ian Urbina
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The Storytellers Summit
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The Constant Wonder
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When We Talk about Animals: What Does It Mean to be Human on the High Seas?
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Slate France: ‘The Outlaw Ocean’
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Living on Earth
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Utah Public Radio: Revisiting ‘The Outlaw Ocean’
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Rampantly Criminal World
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Town Hall Seattle: ‘A gripping adventure story’
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FranceTV: Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean
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Urbina Testifies Before Congress
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Le Devoir: Des océans de misère
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The Current: Traveling further for the catch
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Libreria Podcast: Documenting global injustices
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France 24: The Outlaw Ocean
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The Economist: Diversity of Abuses
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Conservation International: Lawless and largely invisible
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Konbini News: Ian Urbina on The Outlaw Ocean
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Intelligence Squared: The Underworld
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KPCC’s AirTalk: Global Indifference Leads to Mistreatment
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The Foreign Desk: Exploited off the grid
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Ryan Tubridy Show: ‘A bizarre and fascinating place’
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NowThis Español: Interview with Ian Urbina
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Aspen Institute: Lawlessness on the high seas
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PoliticsJOE: ‘Unimaginable levels of crime at sea’
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NowThis: The ripple effect on the environment
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Ryan Tubridy Show: ‘A bizarre and fascinating place’
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World Ocean Radio Series: Reporting on the vivid and corrupt
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Civil Eats: Wage Theft, Slavery and Climate Change
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Le Point: A magnified mirror image
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Público: Cutting corners for consumer goods
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World Ocean Radio Series: Dumping into the Ocean
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World Ocean Radio Series: Corruption on the high seas
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Sea Change Radio: The concealed costs of shipping industries
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Access Utah: Inhabitants of the hidden world
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Green Radio Hour: ‘Out of this world’
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Politics and Prose: Chronicling conditions on the high seas
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Virgin Unite: Slavery at Sea
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World Ocean Radio Series: Crime hidden from view
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UN Dispatch Podcast: An Inside Look at Slavery on Fishing Vessels
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Knowledge @ Wharton: Labor Trafficking on the South China Sea
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NPR: Investigating crime on The Outlaw Ocean
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Ian Urbina Joins The Atlantic
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Oceana: A lack of governance at sea
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Tedx The Outlaw Ocean
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: Slavery as a fishing industry problem
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The Leonard Lopate Show: Palau fights poachers
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John Batchelor Show: The business of human trafficking
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: A global industry of sea slavery
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John Batchelor Show: What are floating armories?
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Marketplace: A life lost at sea
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Marketplace: The dark side of the ocean
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Wharton Podcast: Why offshore violence goes unpunished
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Lip News: Piracy and murder at sea
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NYU: Illegal fishing on the open ocean
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Google: Exploring the last lawless frontier
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NHPR: The art of stealing a ship
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NPR: Two stowaways – one lives, the other dies
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Brigham Young University Radio: Human rights in the fishing industry
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ProPublica: What it’s like reporting on the high seas
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Longform Podcast: The making of The Outlaw Ocean
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All Things Considered: Ocean mayhem
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PBS NewsHour: Murder & slavery at sea
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry: Lang Long’s story is not unique
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The McLaughlin Group: An assessment of The Outlaw Ocean coverage
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New Zealand TV: Captive workers offshore
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Royal Geographical Society of London: Many laws but minimal enforcement
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The Kyle Thiermann Show: Maritime Journalism
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Our Oceans Conference: Is sea slavery a type of illegal fishing?
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