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Blog: Next Generation Journalism

Get an insider's view on next generation journalism with Mary Stucky, lead journalist and co-founder of Round Earth Media.

Tamia Dakinah is the state's newest Miss Liberia Minnesota. | Photo from Facebook group Miss Liberia MN. Beauty Pageant

To make other cultures real through vivid first-hand stories and to explain the connections between “us” and “them” – that’s our goal here at Round Earth Media and Linda Sjostrom, our web editor, understands it well. Linda has spent time reporting and editing for print and radio both in the United States and abroad. Here, a recent event prompts her to not only reflect on a story she covered in the past, but to also consider identity.

Linda Sjostrom: Just last month, a crowd gathered at the Miracle Empowerment Center to witness the crowning of Tamia Dakinah as Miss Liberia Minnesota 2010. In the same way, others across the country have or will name someone the Miss Liberia of their own state this year.

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