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Why So Many Strange Stories Out of Florida?

Friday, August 31, 2012

The Republican National Convention was a scripted, curated affair. Yet so many news stories from Florida are genuinely odd. Brooke speaks with Florida crime reporter Will Greenlee and novelist Karen Russell (a Floridian herself) about some of the weirdest stories and why Florida is such fertile ground for strangeness.

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Practicing Journalism's Ancient Arts

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Earlier this week, in what amounts to journalism's answer to a Civil War reenactment, the reporters and editors of the University Press -- Florida Atlantic University's student paper -- assembled an issue of the paper without the use of computers. That meant writing stories with a typewriter. 
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