Haiti: Drone Strikes Put Residents at Risk Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes.

NEW: Haitian security forces and private contractors working with them have conducted extensive and apparently unlawful lethal drone strikes.

Dozens of ordinary people, including many children, have been killed and injured in these drone operations.

Field notes 002: Across the Heartland I find myself trekking across the United States for stories, and it has me thinking.

I wrote a piece about stewardship — and what it means to keep reporting across the U.S. while the ground keeps shifting.

“Light can give us the feeling that no time has passed at all… it can pull us back to specific points in history.”

Full essay here:

My Non-Linear Life Line is Something of My Own Choosing journalism has asked me to make peace with a life that is not a straight line, and mostly inconvenient. I'm celebrating.

New year, new Substack essay on choosing journalism, and celebrating inconvenience:
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Field Notes 001: Salt, Stone, and Ash Trees Notes on taking a vacation from New York, traveling through Croatia and Sicily, and following threads of family history.

I’m trying to share more beyond my published reporting, so here’s the first ‘Field Notes’: behind-the-scenes observations and fragments that often shape the stories I later pitch and pursue: open.substack.com/pub/jessdipi...

How Gangs, Displacement, and Deportation Are Redrawing Haiti’s Map Armed violence spreads, aid stalls, and strongmen step in to fill the power vacuum across Haiti’s North and South.

My recent piece on #Haiti, looking at the effects on the south and north in the country as the center falls to further control by armed groups for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/port-au-prin...

Run from Rain - Trailer RUN FROM RAIN / Kouri Pou Lapli is a short documentary that follows 16-year-old Macul Nelson, who fled Port Lafiteau near Haiti’s capital after losing both…

Here's a trailer for my new short doc that's making its way through the festival circuit called RUN FROM RAIN / KOURI POU LAPLI. It follows a 16-year-old teen in Haiti who flees from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince due to gang violence that took the lives of his parents. vimeo.com/1082328698

I spoke with @michaeldeibert.bsky.social about my upcoming film, RUN FROM RAIN, that follows a family displaced by ongoing gang violence in Haiti. Take a listen!