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Student reporters fill crucial gap in state government coverage

  • Written by Richard Watts, Senior Lecturer of Geography and Founder of the Center of Community News, University of Vermont
imageDevon Sanders, a statehouse reporter and student at the Lousiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication, interviewed State Rep. Katrina Jackson in 2018.Richard Watts, CC BY-ND

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