Category: Behind The Story

by Sonia Weiser September 11, 2021 0

Q&A: John Tucker and ‘The Unlikely Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor and the Instagram Account That Saved Her Life’

For more than five years, freelance journalist John Tucker has aspired to write a longform piece on sex-trafficking, but only recently did he find the source who turned his general topic into a real story.

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