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‘To be of use when things are so chaotic was really great’ – How student journalists covered US campus protests

Reuters Institute · Matthew Leake · last updated
As the media were temporarily restricted from entering Columbia, Lorenzini says she and her colleagues at City Newsroom, a news outfit run by 12 twelve CJS students and supervised by some of its professors, had a clear advantage over established news organisations, especially at the beginning of the

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