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Nathan Payne

Nathan Payne, a 2019 Abrams Nieman Fellows for Local Investigative Journalism, is the executive editor of Michigan’s Traverse City Record-Eagle.

The Local News Trust Spiral: From Agents of Truth to Accusations of “Fake News”

The Local News Trust Spiral: From Agents of Truth to Accusations of “Fake News”

The day in August 2005 when I idled into Gillette, Wyoming, began a years-long education in public trust in journalism.That day, a curious neighbor stepped out of his townhome to…
December 12, 2019
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