Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Bouloubasis

Journalist Victoria Bouloubasis discusses her career reporting on agricultural and food labor in North Carolina, her approach to labor journalism, and how she uses histories in her work.

• "A North Carolina Farmworker Was Accused of Abusing His Workers. Then Big Tobacco Backed His Election," by Ben Stockton and Victoria Bouloubasis, Mother Jones, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Enlace Latino NC.
• "How a Tobacco Company Funds a Mega-Farmer’s Political Ambitions That Hurt Workers" podcast in English.
• "Cómo una tabacalera financia las ambiciones políticas de granjero que perjudica a los trabajadores" podcast en español.
• Victoria's reporting for Enlace Latino NC.
• Victoria's reporting for Southerly.

This episode was produced for "Working History," the podcast of the Southern Labor Studies Association. 

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