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Doug Cumming

Doug Cumming, a 1987 Nieman Fellow, is a professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Old Newspapers Lead Students to New Discoveries

A valuable collection of historic newspapers is used to put ‘journalistic skills to work on news long dead.’
March 15, 2006
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