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Tristan Smith’s Biography

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Tristan Smith is an award-winning journalist, photographer, videographer and editor whose varied living experiences in Florida, New York and New England gifted him a strong rapport with people of a litany of demographics, religions and cultures.

An advocate for diversity in sourcing and reporting, he aspires to change perpetual stereotypes plagued throughout modern media and empower underrepresented communities through features.

He's recently obtained his Master's Degree at New York University…

Tristan Smith’s Journalist Portfolio

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Northampton High students call for the firing of principal who called students 'asshats' in email...

Northampton High students call for the firing of principal who called students 'asshats' in email...

Almost the entirety of Northampton High School's student body walked out of their classes Wednesday, put on s…

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'Don't come down our hallway': Two high schools in one building, but they're worlds apart

'Don't come down our hallway': Two high schools in one building, but they're worlds apart

Tiara Ortiz was hopeful the summer before freshman year. As a Latinx student in a predominately white Northam…

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Couple who found baby boy abandoned for two days on doorstep want to adopt

Couple who found baby boy abandoned for two days on doorstep want to adopt

Juliannys and Angel Aviles said they found a "blessing" on the doorstep of their Springfield home Sunday nigh…

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TayClair Moore was strangled to death 9 years ago, so why is the alleged killer free on probation...

TayClair Moore was strangled to death 9 years ago, so why is the alleged killer free on probation...

The Moore family believes that if the racial dynamics were switched in this case, if a Black man was accused …

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New program to lock up cell phones at this Mass. school has students raising safety, privacy conc...

New program to lock up cell phones at this Mass. school has students raising safety, privacy conc...

Incoming Springfield Central High School Senior Class President Marguerite Kocsmiersky likes to text her two …

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UMass NAACP student activists march to the chancellors' and deliver a list of demands

UMass NAACP student activists march to the chancellors' and deliver a list of demands

The UMass Amherst NAACP chapter held a march from the Student Union to the Whitmore Administration Building t…

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He thought prison was inevitable — until a Mass. court program helped him break the cycle

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Steven Woodward believed his future only held two options: “Either a cell or a casket.” He made poor decisions, got involved with the wrong people and walked down a dangerous path that landed him behind bars on his 18th birthday. But Woodward said he wasn’t born destined for crime. That life, he explained, was “programmed” into him since he was a child running around Springfield’s Forest Park neighborhood. “There’s kids over here — 15, 16, 13 years old — selling drugs, toting guns,” Woodward said.
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Here’s when the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts 2025’s final frosts will hit Mass.

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Spring has arrived, yet frost and occasional snow showers are disrupting or postponing many people’s plans for seasonal gardening. “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” published a frost map to show when frost is expected to stop nationwide. People can enter their zip code into the Almanac’s Frost Date Calculator to see when the frost is expected to end this spring and start up again in the fall. In the Connecticut River Valley, frost is expected to leave around May 3.
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Trump rolls back environmental regulation to ‘take care of my beautiful hair’

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President Donald Trump plans to “make America’s showers great again” through an executive order signed this week. In an order signed by the president Wednesday, Trump lifted a Barrack Obama administration water pressure restriction. The Obama-era order restricted multi-nozzle showers from discharging over 2.5 gallons of water per minute. As part of the Obama administration’s Energy Conservation Program, the order was put in to help reduce national water waste.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing for my college newspaper: The Amherst Wire

Have you ever used a typewriter?

No, I'm 23

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Alma Gutierrez
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