By the end of a couple of weeks, we had nearly 6,000 suggestions of borders all over the world, from people all over the world. Within a day, we had more than 3,000 responses. We were also open to invisible borders, like socioeconomic lines that often divide cities. The border didn’t have to be between countries. In early May, we created a survey and published a video on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube asking for those ideas. We crafted a way for people not only to follow the journey but also to participate - I wanted your ideas to fuel this project. So when I pitched this international documentary series, I knew I wanted to do it on an ambitious scale.Īfter getting the green light from my executive producer Joe Posner, I roped in Vox’s engagement team. It had a huge impact on me, and I’ve had a genuine curiosity ever since about how people divide themselves up. After high school, I lived in Tijuana for two years and woke up every morning to a giant wall that split two countries apart. I’ve been obsessed with maps and borders for decades. So I wanted to close by giving all of you a deeper look into how we made this project and the lessons we learned. You gave us story ideas that we ended up turning into videos, and your feedback and enthusiasm kept me going, whether I was trekking through the Arctic with no coat other than my red Uniqlo jacket or recovering from being hit by a car. The Vox Borders fans - our community on Facebook, on Instagram, and through our newsletter - were an incredible, important part of the process. From February to the end of November, dozens of people across the newsroom were devoted to the researching, reporting, community building, and producing required to publish our six documentaries. Vox Borders is one of the most ambitious projects that Vox has ever undertaken.
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