Kristen Hare is the editor of Locally, a project at Poynter that chronicles the challenges that newsrooms continue to face during the pandemic. She also works at the Tampa Bay Times as an obituary writer. Her work at Poynter has been crucial in understanding the scope of Covid’s effect on newspapers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 85 newspapers have shuttered, and many more have had to make layoffs, a story that Kristen has closely followed for a year and a half now. Before joining Poynter in 2013, Kristen was a reporter with the St. Louis Beacon and the St. Joseph News-Press in Missouri. After receiving her degree in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Kristen spent two years with the Peace Corps in South America.
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Kristen gave shoutouts to Richland Source in Ohio and Candice Fortman and Sarah Alvarez of Outlier Media in Detroit. Please follow and support these newsrooms!
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