Wednesday, Feb. 19th.
In The Nation's Investigative Fund's "The Backstory" project (about the art and practice of investigative journalism), Turse talks about the challenges of collecting data on civilian casualties in war zones, and in particular the challenges of writing his feature article for the October 7, 2013 issue of The Nation, "America's Afghan Victims."
Original article here: http://www.thenation.com/article/176256/americas-afghan-victims#
Backstory interview here: http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/backstories/1908/the_backstory:_nick_turse
More about Turse's upcoming visit to Albany here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/turse_nick14.html
Photo: Troops on patrol in Afghanistan Photo: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire