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	<title>Alison Dirr</title>
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	<description>Reporter by nature. World traveler. Writer. Enthusiastic coffee pal. Estudiante de español. Endlessly curious about the world and its people.</description>
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		<title>K-12 coverage begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I published my first article as education editor for Madison Commons, an online, hyper-local news organization exploring the ins and outs of Madison, Wis. This is my first foray into hyper-local reporting, and I&#8217;m excited to learn more about covering a community by building working relationships with those directly affected by policy changes: [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=461&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reach of cover story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, our publisher and editor went on a local TV show to discuss Curb Magazine, which we launched in early December. I wrote the cover story for Curb Magazine and was so humbled by their words about my article covering the recovery at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in the aftermath of the August shooting. And [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=456&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renewing Optimism: ਆਸ਼ਾਵਾਦ ਦਾ ਨਵੀਨੀਕਰਨ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest article focused on the recovery process at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin after the August shooting. In talking with members of the temple (gurdwara in Punjabi), many said that a certain portion of the congregation speaks Punjabi more than English. It occurred to me that there had been a lot of English-language coverage of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=448&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A more positive angle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 00:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final project in my reporting class focuses on the concept of &#8220;edu-topia.&#8221; The fundamental concept is that everything from our interviews to our final published stories will focus on the idea of what an ideal education system would look like. We are talking to teachers, principals and district administrators in K-12 education. We are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=376&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (social) media balancing act</title>
		<link>http://adirr.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/the-social-media-balancing-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having witnessed many a dating ritual lately, it occurred to me that social media is still in the awkward &#8220;getting to know you&#8221; stage. Although I&#8217;ve recently fallen madly, hopelessly, never-going-back in love with watching the TweetDeck notifications pop up on my desktop during lecture, and although it looks so romantic to be one of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=371&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Shadid: A remembrance.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been more than two weeks since New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid passed away in Syria, but &#8220;Bearing Witness in Syria: A War Reporter&#8217;s Last Days,&#8221; was published just today by the photographer who was with him on his last trip across the border. Losing him seems to weigh heavily on his colleagues at the Times [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=362&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tips from a professional</title>
		<link>http://adirr.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/tips-from-a-professional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post Reporter Dana Priest spoke Tuesday at UW-Madison about her experience reporting for more than two decades on the U.S.&#8217;s secret intelligence world. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Priest spoke both about overcoming challenges she faces as a journalist trying to get the story in a world based on secrets and mistakes she has made [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=251&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Take the long road and walk it&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://adirr.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/take-the-long-road-and-walk-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first article for my high school paper was a review of a movie I can&#8217;t name now. At that point, I thought becoming a reporter would be pretty straight forward. I thought that somehow the long road to employment in the journalism industry wouldn&#8217;t seem so long &#8211; and would even be enjoyable &#8211; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=231&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Semester in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In coming to Spain, my primary goal was to improve my Spanish skills but also to seek out a new perspective on the world. Although the Spanish culture is not all that different from that of the United States in some respects, in others the two countries seem to be a world apart. While in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=198&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Original Tells the Whole Truth</title>
		<link>http://adirr.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-original-tells-the-whole-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 05:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had originally planned to discuss the lack of primary documents provided by news organization in their online reporting because I noticed in my own reporting how difficult it was at times to track down government documents or other primary sources that reporters referred to in their articles. Why, in the age of quick links, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adirr.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19767125&#038;post=31&#038;subd=adirr&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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