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HuffPost editor: ‘Look to local news’ to understand Appalachia

by Paige Lavender on January 20, 2017 Comments are Disabled

There’s no singular reason the 2016 presidential election results turned out the way they did. But, within days of the results rolling in, much of the blame was pinned on the media for failing to accurately report the wants and needs of American voters. Some accused national journalists covering the […]

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by 100 Days in Appalachia on January 16, 2017 Comments are Disabled

What is Appalachia, and why should you care? Since the election, media organizations from The Guardian to CNN to The Washington Post to the BBC have dropped into Appalachia in a quest to make sense of what, for many, seemed to take the world by surprise. We were less surprised. […]