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Last week I started introducing you to the new Argo bloggers. We have two more to announce now, completing the first wave of sites.
Minnesota Public Radio has brought on board Alex Friedrich to be the dean of its higher education site. Alex spent the past year getting his masters at the London School of Economics. He is a former St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter who covered education for the Monterey County Herald (Calif.). Alex has covered a wide range of stories from the Russian elections in Moscow to the I-35 bridge collapse in the Twin Cities. He may be best remembered around the MPR newsroom though as the guy who once appeared on-air for eating nothing but food-on-a-stick for 12 days straight at the Minnesota State Fair in 2006… and lived to talk about it. To be fair, it was a reporting assignment for the Pioneer Press, not simply a craving for corn dogs!
Cassandra Profita is the new Argo blogger at Oregon Public Broadcasting. We like that Cassandra began one of her stories with, ‘Spotted this month: Six men heaving hundreds of dead bodies into Clatsop County’s Lewis and Clark River.’ She goes on to explain that they were, in fact, ‘dead fish bodies — or what remained of them after six months of storage.’ Sounds like the right tone for her blog on the collision between development and environmental policy in the Northwest. Cassandra is an award-winning reporter for The Daily Astorian (Or.) and reports weekly for the local NPR member station KMUN. She has degrees in journalism and environmental studies from the University of Missouri.
It’s a great group. Can’t wait to see the talent that the next six stations bring on board.