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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”

A reporter returned to Gillette, Wyoming—and the family-owned paper where he got his start—to find a tense and tenuous relationship between local journalists and their community
December 12, 2019
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