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A River Runs Through It

Defining news communities through the water they share

By Alysia Santo Jul 27, 2011 at 05:15 PM

While students at Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Andrew McGlashen and Jeff Gillies started thinking, like so... More

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