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Boxes of ballots sit in the Maricopa County Recorder and Elections Department offices after Arizona's primary election Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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Fellows, in the foreground, work at The Texas Tribune office on Jan. 22, 2020. (Photo by Eddie Gaspar)

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The Dallas Morning News is one of a handful of newsrooms with labs devoted to covering education. From left on front row: Brayden Garcia (former Ed Lab intern who is now at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram), Emily Donaldson, Talia Richman, Eva-Marie Ayala. Back row: Corbett Smith and Valeria Olivares. (Courtesy Eva-Marie Ayala)

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From left: Amaris Castillo, then a reporter for The Sun in Lowell, Massachusetts, accompanies Ismael Rodriguez and Margarita Garcia Lozada, on their daily walk for a feature story in 2019. (Julia Malakie/The Sun)

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Pictured top right to left: Alaina Beautiful Bald Eagle is managing editor of the West River Eagle on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota; Kevin Schnepf worked as sports editor at The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead until his retirement in December; Lori Freeze is news editor at the Stone County Leader in Arkansas; Wes Brown is publisher of The Daily Record in Arkansas. Bottom right to left: Benny Polacca is a senior reporter at Osage News in Oklahoma; Bonita Gooch is editor-in-chief and publisher of The Community Voice in Kansas; Jeremy Waltner is second-generation publisher and editor of the Freeman Courier in South Dakota; Carrie Pitzer, second from the right, is owner and publisher of Pitzer Digital in Nebraska. (Submitted photos)

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WLKY anchor Lauren Adams married into a family that has lived in Mayfield for generations. (Al Tompkins/Poynter)

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Alicia Barnes at home and in the studio. (Courtesy: Kirstin Pellizzaro and Madeleine Liseblad)

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Monica Richardson, right corner, is executive editor of the Miami Herald. She and her daughter recently attended a Marlins game with Herald interns and staffers. (Courtesy Monica Richardson)

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Cherry The Party Tomato and friends. (Image: Southern California News Group)

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Images from documentaries and short films from Documented, DigBoston and Dustin Cohen. (Screenshots)

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An April 19 March in Minneapolis. (Photo: Jaida Grey Eagle/Sahan Journal)

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Photojournalist Amanda Rossmann edits video footage for the documentary '2020: The Year That Revealed Us' while working from the Cincinnati Enquirer office. (Photo by Meg Vogel/Cincinnati Enquirer)

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This summer, journalist Mitra Kalita launched a newsletter, Epicenter-NYC, to serve her neighborhood during the pandemic. Early this year, she co-founded URL Media, a network of Black and Brown media organizations. (Images via Instagram)

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Damage is visible in the early morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Enrique Limón (Image via Robert Wood Photography)

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Phua (left) and Blia Thao harvested rhubarb on their farm in Spring Valley, WI. (JIM GEHRZ/STAR TRIBUNE)

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Pauly Denetclaw covers Indigenous affairs for the Texas Observer. She's pictured here in photos by Nate Lemuel, left, and Zachariah Ben, right.

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Belle, Superman and Batman play with children at the Silke Field evacuation site in Springfield, Oregon on Sept. 10. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian)

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From a pre-pandemic photo shoot. Photo by Scott Keeler, Tampa Bay Times

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Staff of Mountain State Spotlight gathered for the first time at the capital for socially distanced group photos. Both Ken Ward Jr., and Eric Eyre spoke about the talented, eager reporters they’re now working with, several who are West Virginia natives. (Photo by F. Brian Ferguson)

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A makeshift beer garden in the parking lot of Craft House in Dana Point (Photo by Brad A. Johnson, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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Gazette editors work in a corridor at the printing press, plugged directly into the server to produce the newspaper on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

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Kara Meyberg Guzman is figuring out how to keep podcasting in a pandemic. (Photo by Will Duncan/Santa Cruz Local)

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Screen shots via CalMatters, Tampa Bay Times and The Boston Globe

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Image via Forum Communications’ “A State of Crisis: 19 Hours in Minnesota.”

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Thái Thanh was a world famous Vietnamese pop diva who died in California. A reporter at the Los Angeles Times reported on the memorial service by watching it on Facebook Live and traveling to Little Saigon in Orange County. (Screenshot, Facebook Live)

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Top left: Screenshot, the Seattle Times; right: Screenshot, the Baltimore Sun; bottom left: Screenshot, the Anchorage Daily News.

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From top: Someone has been setting up a table of free bagged lunches for those in need outside the Arundel Beach Road traffic circle in Severna Park.(Selene San Felice/Capital Gazette) Bottom right: Sydney Hoover covers schools in Eudora, Kansas from her home in De Soto, Kansas. (Image courtesy Sydney Hoover) Bottom middle: Arlene Van Dyk is a critical care nurse at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. (Photo: Jeff Rhode Holy Name Hospital/Special to NorthJersey.com) Bottom left: Storytellers project founder and director, Megan Finnerty. (Photo: Jeremiah Toller)

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Arlene Van Dyk is a critical care nurse at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. (Photo: Jeff Rhode Holy Name Hospital/Special to NorthJersey.com)

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The Dryes in a living room concert for WGHP (Screenshot, Facebook Live)

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WGBH’s Arun Rath hosts the new nightly news program, ‘In It Together.’ (Photo courtesy WGBH)

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Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph operators during the Spanish influenza epidemic in Jacksonville, Florida. Nearly one-third of the city's residents contracted influenza, according to historian Gary Mormino. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory (1918)]

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A couple chats near the Pineapple Fountain in the Waterfront Park in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2013. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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We asked Malick Mercier, a young journalist who was there to share his thoughts. (Screen shot, Instagram)

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A man walks among fallen trees left in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Victoria, Tex. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Taylor Moxey is 11 and probably doing way more than you. (Photo courtesy taylorthechef.com)

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San Francisco Chronicle Editor in Chief Audrey Cooper pours champagne in the newsroom as the newspaper celebrates 150 years of operation on Friday January 16, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo courtesy San Francisco Chronicle)

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This was the scene in the newsroom of The New York Times, in New York City on Sunday, Nov. 5, 1978 as editorial staffs worked feverishly to prepare a edition on Monday. Staffs reported to work after the papers reached tentative agreements with all striking unions. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm )

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A list of words no longer allowed in the news meetings at Philadelphia Media Network. (Photo by Kristen Hare/Poynter)

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Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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The new and old Amelia Earhart Memorial Bridges in Atchison, Kansas in 2013. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

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In this Feb. 27, 2007 file photo, the Belo Corp. headquarters building is seen behind The Dallas Morning News building in downtown Dallas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum,)

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This is a general view of the Associated Press Washington D.C. bureau during a quiet night shift, with teletype machines at left, 1972. (AP Photo)

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Tony Elkins, deputy managing editor, Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Submitted photo)

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(Craig Pittman, right, talks with Florida Governor Rick Scott. Photo by Atoyia Deans/Tampa Bay Times)

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