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5:35 AM ET, July 24, 2017

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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:

Chicas Poderosas is launching an accelerator in Latin America for women interested in starting their own independent digital news organizations or projects — “We are hoping to change the narrative in Latin America, where most media organizations are led by men."

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Profile of Gar Joseph, a former Philadelphia Daily News editor, who edited the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of police corruption that led to the book Busted — IN BUSTED, A 2014 BOOK based on their Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of police corruption, Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman …

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