I'm a senior writer for CNN Investigates covering border and immigration issues from Phoenix, Arizona. Before that, I served as managing editor of the Honolulu Civil Beat. I was also senior reporter at the Arizona Republic and azcentral.com, which I joined in 2011 and where I participated in the Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.

I began my journalism career as the news department of a radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, that went belly up after three months. I have worked in TV, and have reported for the Wall Street Journal and the Seattle Times, among other publications. 

I've served as a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Paraguay, led media-training projects in Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus, and trained journalists in 17 other countries. From 2006 until 2009, I taught journalism at Ryerson University, in Toronto.

I'm the author of “In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, the World’s Most Powerful Retailer,” Times Books, 1998.