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September 11, 2012 12:32 PM
Homicide Watch revs back up
Kickstarter cash in hand, the site will restart this fall as a student-reporting project
College students who want to learn crime reporting, 21st-century style, from two pioneers of the genre should get their résumés to laura@homicidewatch.org pronto. That would be Laura Amico, of course, who with her husband, Chris, built Homicide Watch DC into a startup sensation in the nation’s capital, and then watched nervously as it nearly fell apart last summer when they...
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