Brad Tyer

Brad Tyer is a former editor of the Missoula (Montana) Independent, a 2010 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, a 2011 Fund for Investigative Journalism grant recipient, and the author of "Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape" (Beacon Press, 2013). He's contributed to the Observer since the mid-1990s, including stints as freelance reporter, copy editor and, currently, managing editor.
Recent Posts by Brad Tyer
Beyond the Border
April 9, 2015 by Melissa del Bosque, David Mann, Eugenio del Bosque Gómez , Jen Reel, Brad Tyer, Feilding Cage, Kenan Davis, Rich Harris, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, Mae RyanThis wide-ranging four-part investigative print and multimedia series examines the impact that the current immigration crisis has on those directly affected. Judges called “Beyond the Border” a “masterfully executed” series that takes an abstract issue like immigration policy and “makes it real,” portraying each character as the “complicated individuals that they are, not just the roles they occupy in this epic drama.” Originally published in The Texas Observer and The Guardian in August 2014.
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