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From statewide collaborations to basics like voter registration guides and candidate platform information, here’s how student newsrooms across the country have been gearing up to preview and cover the midterms.
Ritter joins SPLC on the internship’s journalism track, where she will report this academic year on censorship cases, public records disputes and other issues affecting student journalists.
The Student Press Law Center is excited to welcome Melissa Melewsky to the team this fall as SPLC’s first legal director. As she brings that experience to support the nation’s student journalists, we sat down to get to know her a little better.
