I became frustrated because CNN covered what they called “miracle rescues” every day. My job was to latch on with one of those teams and translate their video stories into print stories. We had lots of TV crews down there, including Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper and other big names. CNN did not send me in the first wave of reporters, but I was sent in the second wave, primarily to write news. I became interested in not just the act of trauma, but human resiliency. At a very early age, I was exposed to death and killing and war and murder. You can imagine what kind of impact it had on me. He was on death row, and I interviewed him several days before he was executed. I was taken to interview a man named Marvin Francois. In the final piece, one year after the earthquake, Basu took Maxi to reunite Joseph, whom she hadn’t seen since their rescue.Īs told to Gentry Hale My first exposure to trauma reporting was through the death penalty. In the second piece, Moni drove Maxi around Port-au-Prince, which was the first time she had left her makeshift home to see the damage. In the first piece, Basu wrote about Maxi and Joseph’s experience under the rubble. ![]() Moni Basu wrote three stories about Falone Maxi, a young woman who was with her friend, Mica Joseph, for six days after the 2010 Haiti earthquake destroyed their college. Photo by Lisa Desjardins “When you don’t see something with your own eyes, it’s almost not real.” Former CNN reporter Moni Basu in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the 2010 earthquake.
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