Ian Urbina Explained

Ian Urbina
Birth Date:29 March 1972
Alma Mater:Georgetown University
University of Chicago
Occupation:Investigative reporter
Organization:The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Outlaw Ocean Project
Awards:Pulitzer prize, Christopher Dickey Award[1]

Ian Urbina (born March 29, 1972) is an American investigative reporter who has written for a variety of outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic.[2] Urbina is the author of The New York Times bestseller The Outlaw Ocean and founder of journalism nonprofit, The Outlaw Ocean Project.[3]

Early life and education

As a student at St Albans[4] and Georgetown University, Urbina was a long-distance runner.[5] [6]

Urbina has degrees in history from Georgetown University and the University of Chicago.[7]

Career

Urbina was outreach editor at the Middle East Research and Information Project from 2000 to 2003.[8]

A 2007 New York Times investigation by Urbina about "mag crews" — traveling groups of teenagers, many of them runaways or from broken homes, who sell magazine subscriptions — was optioned for a 2016 movie, American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Shia LaBeouf.[9]

In 2008, Urbina was a member of the team of reporters that broke the story about the New York governor, Eliot Spitzer, and his use of prostitutes, a series of stories for which the Times staff won a Pulitzer in 2009 for breaking news.[10]

In 2011, Urbina wrote a series "Drilling Down" about the oil and gas industry and fracking.[11] [12] [13] John Krasinski said that the 2012 film Promised Land was partly inspired by the series.[14]

In 2013, he wrote a story about longterm exposure to hazardous chemicals and the federal agency, OSHA, which is responsible for protecting against these workplace threats.[15] For The New York Times Magazine, he wrote in 2014, a piece called "The Secret Life of Passwords" about the anecdotes and emotions hidden in everyday web-users' "secure" passwords.[16]

He left The New York Times in May 2019 to found the non-profit journalism organization, The Outlaw Ocean Project.[17] [18]

In 2022, 'Get Away from the Target', a documentary film for which Urbina was Executive Producer, won an Emmy Award.[19] [20]

The Outlaw Ocean

In 2015, Urbina wrote a series called "The Outlaw Ocean" about lawlessness on the high seas.[21] [22] [23] [24] To report the stories, Urbina traveled through Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, much of that time spent on fishing ships, chronicling a diversity of crimes offshore, including the killing of stowaways, sea slavery, intentional dumping, illegal fishing, the stealing of ships, gun-running, stranding of crews, and murder with impunity.[25] This series served as the basis of the 2019 book, The Outlaw Ocean, which has since been published in various countries and languages.[26] [27] In 2015, Leonardo DiCaprio, Netflix, and Kevin Misher bought the scripted and non-scripted rights for The Outlaw Ocean.[28] The series won various journalism awards, including the George Polk Awards for Foreign Reporting,[29] and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Foreign Correspondence from the Society of Professional Journalists.[30]

In 2019, Urbina created Synesthesia Media and recruited hundreds of musicians from more than 80 countries for his Outlaw Ocean Music Project.[31]

In 2021, Urbina was accused by musicians of exploiting recording artists through the Outlaw Ocean Music Project. Musician Benn Jordan claimed Urbina kept most of the revenue from the Outlaw Ocean Music Project for himself and his company, Synesthesia Media. Urbina was listed on streaming services as co-author of more than 2,000 songs by more than 400 artists in the project. Musicians shared emails showing that Urbina had solicited them through his New York Times email address for the project, when he was no longer at The Times, and that Urbina had not disclosed that Synesthesia was in fact owned by him. Urbina responded that he did not profit from the project.[32] [33] The New York Times said it was "looking into the matter."[34] [35]

In 2022, Urbana released a self-hosted, 7-part podcast series by The Outlaw Ocean Project, in collaboration with the CBC and LA Times.[36]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Academy Partners With FilmAid for Conversation Series About Craft of Filmmaking. Hollywood Reporter . October 5, 2021 . 20 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Ian Urbina Joins The Atlantic as Contributing Writer. The Atlantic. August 15, 2019. August 15, 2019.
  3. Web site: The Tactics Behind a New Investigation by Ian Urbina & The Outlaw Ocean Project. Myrtle Beach . January 20, 2022 . 20 July 2022.
  4. News: Sonner. Tim. Free from pain, St. Albans' Urbina regains momentum. September 27, 2015. The Washington Post. September 28, 1989.
  5. News: Graber. Michael. Hoyas men chase 1st National Championship. September 27, 2015. The Washington Post. November 24, 1994.
  6. News: Niewiaroski. Donna. Running. March 23, 2020. The Washington Post. October 11, 1993.
  7. Web site: Author Biography. Macmillan. Macmillan Publishers. October 1, 2015.
  8. Web site: Ian Urbina - MERIP.. MERIP. July 5, 2003.
  9. News: O'Sullivan. Michael. 'American Honey': Travels with a youthful subculture, fleeing crushed dreams. October 6, 2016. Washington Post.
  10. Web site: The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Breaking News Reporting . www.pulitzer.org . December 6, 2021 . en.
  11. News: McKibben. Bill. March 8, 2012. Why Not Frack?. The New York Review of Books. September 27, 2015.
  12. Web site: Petit. Charlie. New York Times Science Times. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120602105841/http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/2011/06/. June 2, 2012. September 27, 2015. Knight Science Journalism at MIT. MIT.
  13. News: Kennedy. Robert F.. October 20, 2011. The Fracking Industry's War on The New York Times and the Truth. The Huffington Post. September 27, 2015. In an era when few papers or news outlets are still willing to take on very powerful interests, The Times has pursued very difficult questions about one of our country's richest and most aggressive industries..
  14. News: Karpel. Ari. Matt Damon and John Krasinski on making "Promised Land," A Non-Message Message Movie. September 27, 2015. Fast Company. January 2, 2013.
  15. Web site: Starkman. Dean. Three things to like about the Times OSHA exposé. September 27, 2015. Columbia Journalism Review.
  16. News: Urbina. Ian. November 23, 2014. The Secret Life of Passwords. en. The New York Times Magazine. September 22, 2018.
  17. Web site: Ian Urbina issues apology after controversy erupts over The Outlaw Ocean Music Project . Fader magazine . 19 July 2022.
  18. Web site: December 5, 2021. A Former 'New York Times' Reporter Allegedly Exploited Artists. December 7, 2021. UPROXX. en-US.
  19. Web site: Ian Urbina: Los delitos ambientales y contra los derechos humanos van mano a mano. Efe Verde . October 11, 2022 . 19 October 2022.
  20. Web site: ABC, Vice Lead 2022 News Emmy Award Winners. Variety . September 29, 2022 . 2 October 2022.
  21. Web site: Murphy. Tim. Deep Dive. The University of Chicago Magazine. The University of Chicago. March 2, 2016.
  22. Web site: Torrence. Marc. Murder, Slavery, A Harrowing Chase: Behind the Journalism Series That's Changing the Oceans. Patch.com. February 17, 2016. Patch Media. February 18, 2016.
  23. Web site: Damanski. Maria. Quick Take: Growing Momentum to Fight Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Talk. Nature.org. September 27, 2015.
  24. News: Ryan. Chris. 'True Detective,' Season 2, Episode 5: 'Other Lives'. 27 September 2015. Grantland. 2015-07-20.
  25. Long Island University Announces 67th Annual George Polk Awards In Journalism. PR Newswire. PR Newswire. March 19, 2016.
  26. Web site: Iglesias . Gabino . 'The Outlaw Ocean': A Forgotten Frontier Where Slavery And Illegal Activities Abound . NPR . August 21, 2019 . August 31, 2019.
  27. Web site: The Outlaw Ocean Book. The Outlaw Ocean. Ian Urbina. April 6, 2020.
  28. News: June 20, 2016. The Tracking Board. The Tracking Board. November 10, 2016.
  29. News: Long Island University Announces 67th Annual George Polk Awards In Journalism. May 24, 2016. Long Island University. February 14, 2016.
  30. Web site: 2015 SIGMA DELTA CHI AWARD HONOREES. www.spj.org. Society of Professional Journalists. May 24, 2016.
  31. Web site: Colin. Molly. Art and Advocacy Combine in The Outlaw Ocean Music Project. www.sfcv.org. The San Francisco Classical Voice. December 8, 2020.
  32. Web site: Wise. Jeff. 2021-12-13. Ian Urbina's Perfect Storm – Did a journalist get into the music business to help the oceans or help himself?. 2021-12-22. Intelligencer. en-us.
  33. Web site: Urbina. Ian. An Apology from Ian. 3 January 2022. The Outlaw Ocean Music Project. en.
  34. Leight . Elias . A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Has Been Accused of 'Scamming' Musicians . Rolling Stone . December 7, 2021 . December 6, 2021.
  35. Web site: Stokel-Walker. Chris. Did a former 'NYT' reporter exploit musicians for his personal gain?. December 5, 2021. Input. December 5, 2021 . en.
  36. News: 'Do something small': One journalist sees solutions for world's oceans . Christian Science Monitor . Mark . Trumbull . October 2022. 8 October 2022.

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