Podcast Episodes

Introducing Origin Stories

Sharing a new podcast from Campside Media called Origin Stories, about the creative process and the craft of writing and reporting. Each episode drills down on a single work. What inspired it? How wa…

Published on 10 hours ago

Big Sugar I Bonus - Forced Labor and a Government Ban

Season 2 Episode 12

Charity Ryerson investigates human rights and environmental abuse allegations against multinational corporations everyday. But what she and her team found in Central Romana worker camps was like noth…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Big Sugar I Bonus - Who Bears the Cost

Season 2 Episode 11

Meet Kina Phillips, part of the grass roots effort in Florida to fight cane burning and encourage the sugar companies to embrace green-harvesting methods. Then, Celeste digs deeper into how the pendi…

Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Big Sugar I Bonus - Black Snow Falls in Florida

Season 2 Episode 10

Reporter Lulu Ramadan set out to cover the health effects of burning cane. Now, for the first time, there is data linking Florida residents’ respiratory illnesses to Big Sugar. 

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Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago

Big Sugar I Episode 9 - Trench Warfare

Season 2 Episode 9

There’s one last jury trial left, one last shot at forcing the sugar companies to make good on unpaid wages. And Dave Gorman miraculously finds new evidence that could clinch it. But that’s when an o…

Published on 1 month ago

Big Sugar I Episode 8 - The Battle of the Swamp

Season 2 Episode 8

At the intersection of sugar, nature and influence, you find yourself in just one place: the Everglades, an environmental wonder and disaster. The fight for control and the fight to clean up the mass…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Big Sugar I Episode 7 - Bittersweet

Season 2 Episode 7

Meet Cristin Kearns, a dentist turned detective. She's on a mission to uncover the darkly shrewd public relations strategies that the Sugar industry has used to burnish its image and conceal the hea…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Big Sugar I Episode 6 - The Decision and the Drama

Season 2 Episode 6

The case continues as the lawyers seek justice for the cane cutters. The jury reaches a decision. 

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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Big Sugar I Episode 5 - The American Dream

Season 2 Episode 5

Host Celeste Headlee goes on the hunt for the Fanjul brothers in Palm Beach, Florida and uncovers an even more devastating truth about the American sugar industry’s past. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and th…

Published on 2 months ago

Big Sugar I Episode 4 - Without Sugar, There is No Country

Season 2 Episode 4

There is a saying in Cuba: “Without sugar there is no country.” We travel to 1950’s Cuba to meet the Fanjul family, sugar barons whose experiences with sugar, Castro and the Tropicana nightclub shine…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago