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A conversation with Vanessa Araiza of WBRC in Birmingham

Will Fuller and Vanessa Araiza at the 2016 IRE Conference in New Orleans.Photo: Will Fuller At the 2016 IRE Conference in New Orleans, Knight Scholar Will Fuller sat down with Vanessa Araiza, a weekend anchor and reporter at WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama. Fuller: Why journalism? Araiza: I was never a news junkie. I wanted to…

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A conversation with Jenise Morgan of the Florida Courier

Jenise Morgan of the Florida CourierPhoto by Akira Kyles At the IRE Conference in New Orleans, 2016 Knight Scholar Akira Kyles spoke with attendee Jenise Morgan, senior editor at the Florida Courier. Kyles: How did you fall in love with journalism? Morgan: I fell in love with journalism when I was in the 11th grade…

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A conversation with Breanna Molloy of KATC

Jocelyn Stargell-Zachery (left) and Breanna Molloy (right) at the 2016 IRE Conference. Photo by Jocelyn Stargell-Zachery At the IRE Conference in New Orleans, 2016 Knight Scholar Jocelyn Stargell-Zachery spoke with attendee Breanna Molloy, a multimedia journalist at KATC in Lafayette, Louisiana. Stargell-Zachery: What is your background? Did you originally go to journalism school? Molloy: Well, I originally…

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A conversation with Ian Auzenne of KATC in Lafayette, Louisiana

At the 2016 IRE Conference in New Orleans, Knight Scholar Ashley Jackson talked with Ian Auzenne, an executive producer at KATC in Lafayette, Louisiana. Jackson: Tell me about your journey and how you got into the position that you are in today? Auzenne: It starts back to 1998, when I was 10 years old. I…

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A conversation with Tonya Simpson of WTMJ-Milwaukee

Tonya SimpsonPhoto by Aliah Williamson At the IRE Conference in New Orleans, 2016 Knight Scholar Aliah Williamson spoke with Tonya Simpson, executive producer of the investigative team and special projects at WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Williamson: What interests you about investigative journalism? Simpson: I feel like all journalism is important, sharing stories and shining a light…

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A conversation with Francisco Vara-Orta of the University of Missouri

At the IRE Conference in New Orleans, 2016 Knight Scholar Arriana McLymore spoke with attendee Francisco Vara-Orta, a graduate student at the University of Missouri. McLymore: What interested you in journalism? Vara-Orta: My mother always had newspapers in the house. We didn’t always have the money to buy certain things, but she would say that…

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