JONATHAN VIT
JONATHAN VIT

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A Community Struggles With Jakarta’s Water Quality
A Community Struggles With Jakarta’s Water Quality

A dispatch from Cilincing, a seaside fishing slum in North Jakarta, heavily impacted by water pollution dumped by clothing factories upstream.

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Jakarta GlobeJonathan VitDecember 2, 2019Indonesia, Jakarta Globe
'Fifty Years Is Enough. Genocide Is Genocide.'
'Fifty Years Is Enough. Genocide Is Genocide.'

An interview with Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence” about Indonesia’s culture of impunity and his hopes that his two documentaries about the mass killings of 1965 would inspire a acknowledgment of past atrocities.

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Jakarta GlobeJonathan VitDecember 2, 2019Indonesia, Jakarta Globe
A Span of a Half-Century
A Span of a Half-Century

A look at how the Walt Whitman Bridge drove the development of South Jersey’s suburbs, and helped establish a life for an entire generation of ironworkers.

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Gloucester County TimesJonathan VitDecember 2, 2019Gloucester County Times, United States
For Needy, Home Is Years Away
For Needy, Home Is Years Away

A story about how South Jersey’s underfunded public housing authorities are forcing those in need into so-called “poverty motels” as a short term solution to dealing with a list that was, at the time, more than eight years long.

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Gloucester County TimesJonathan VitDecember 2, 2019Gloucester County Times, United States
End of the Line
End of the Line

A news feature tracing the death of a heroin user on a NJ Transit bus back to the source, uncovering the uncomfortable relationship between the drug corners of Camden—one of New Jersey’s poorest places—and the wealthy suburbs at its border.

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Gloucester County TimesJonathan VitDecember 2, 2019Gloucester County Times, United States
The long way home
The long way home

South Jersey has the worst public transit in the state. This is a news feature that explores just how bad it is for carless commuters.

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Gloucester County TimesJonathan VitDecember 2, 2019Gloucester County Times, United States

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