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Leslie Dreyfous McCarthy

Leslie Dreyfous McCarthy, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, is a former national writer for The Associated Press. She is the author of a controversial local ballot initiative and an advocate for environmental responsibility and smart-growth on the California coast.

Creating a New Town Square

‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’
December 15, 2005
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