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Columbia Journalism Report / Andrew McCormick / Oct 5, 2018
“At the beginning of this year, Chicago-native Carlos Ballesteros, 25, was unhappily ‘farming clicks,’ he says, as a member of Newsweek’s digital team in Manhattan. He quit when he saw the Chicago Sun-Times had been selected as a Report for America outlet. Today he reports from Chicago’s South and West sides—including from the neighborhood where he grew up and where his grandmother first landed when she immigrated to the US from Mexico in the 1960s.”
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