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Forest Hunt

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California, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: American Public Media Group, The Chronicle of Higher Education, MPR News (Saint Paul, MN), Fair, APM Reports
Covers:  My focus is higher education, podcasting & media, and police, but I don't limit myself to that.
Intern reporter @apmreports, formerly @Chronicle & @politicoca. Tips: (495) 666-5771 or forestreports@proton.me. (they/them) @foresthunt.bsky.social

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I am an intern reporter with The Chronicle of Higher Education. Former intern reporter with POLITICO California, intern fack checker at FAIR.org, and reporter with The Cooper Point Journal in Olympia, Washington.

I'm happiest doing narrative community reporting focused on accountability for the powerful, vulnerable people, and historical context. I love a good niche media story to.

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Tim Walz’s experience in China could help him as veep, but he barely mentions it as a candidate

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By Forest Hunt, Caspar von Au, Curtis Gilbert Verified
| MPR News (Saint Paul, MN) Verified
The warning from the U.S. State Department in June 1989 was stark. It told Americans to stay away from China, citing an “extremely volatile and potentially life-threatening” situation there following the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two months later, even though the department was still discouraging “non-essential” travel to the country, a 25-year-old teacher from Nebraska went there anyway. “I’m somewhat apprehensive, but I’m also excited,” Gov.
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On This Campus, Every Student Could Join a Union. The College Calls It an ‘Existential Threat.’

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By Forest Hunt
| chroni.cl
Student workers at Berea College won’t be the first to form a union of undergraduates, but a union at the small Kentucky institution would be the first in other ways. If successful, it would be the first of its kind in the South, a region that’s historically been anti-union. It would be the first student-worker union at a federal work college, where students hold a job in return for free tuition. It would also be the first undergraduate union to count every student on campus as a member.
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On This Campus, Every Student Could Join a Union. The College Calls It an ‘Existential Threat.’

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By Forest Hunt
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
Student workers at Berea College won’t be the first to form a union of undergraduates, but a union at the small Kentucky institution would be the first in other ways. If successful, it would be the first of its kind in the South, a region that’s historically been anti-union. It would be the first student-worker union at a federal work college, where students hold a job in return for free tuition. It would also be the first undergraduate union to count every student on campus as a member.
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