What is it like to cover Guantanamo Bay?

By Sacha Pfeiffer,

Scott Detrow, Noah Caldwell

Published February 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM EST

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sacha Pfeiffer transports us to Guantanamo Bay for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

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