Stony Brook journalism students put their journalistic principles to the test when they traveled to report on issues confronting in the jungles of Ecuador with the Journalism Without Walls program, a feature of Stony Brook’s innovative journalism curriculum since 2009.

The students who went on the two-week trip to Ecuador–Mike Adams, Demi Guo, Michelle Hennessy, Giovanni Ortiz and Jay Shah—were accompanied by two journalism professors, Pablo Calvi  and Barbara Selvin.

Journalism Without Walls group visits a classroom.

They examined the indigenous peoples’ efforts to develop economic self-sufficiency through ecotourism and medicine, education and voting rights, while struggling to balance tradition and change.

They put together a website designed to report on the story of lives and challenges of these indigenous people.

Previous Journalism Without Walls trips include Russia (2011), Mississippi’s Gulf Coast (2011), Cuba (2012, 2016), China (2009, 2014), Kenya (2013), Turkey (2014), Bangalore (2015) and Korea (2016).

Read more: http://www.stonybrook.edu/happenings/featuredpost/j-students-cross-borders-to-report-on-life-in-ecuadors-jungles/