Melissa Montalvo
Accountability Reporter, The Fresno Bee
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Melissa Montalvo is an award-winning accountability and enterprise reporter at The Fresno Bee in Fresno, California, the center of California’s agricultural heartland. She covers a range of issues including healthcare, the expansion of California’s largest ICE detention facility and labor abuses in the agricultural industry. She was a finalist for a 2025 James Beard Media award for an investigation into workplace fatalities at a California poultry processing facility.
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Finding the Story: The Data Behind Immigration Stories
Covering immigration means everything from tracking down deportation numbers to figuring out where people are being detained and what’s happening inside immigration courts. In this hands-on session, we’ll walk participants through some of the current available immigration-related data and go over how to interpret it. We’ll then use some of that data to discuss how we can get leads on local and national stories. (Bring your laptops to follow along.)
Melissa Montalvo
Accountability Reporter, The Fresno Bee
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