Article in Poynter by Kristen Hare, 1/28/26
Headline: “For journalists who covered Ferguson, the news from Minneapolis feels ‘uncomfortably familiar’ “
Sybhead: “Journalists who covered Ferguson reflect on what they learned — and what feels different — as unrest unfolds again in Minnesota”
“In the summer of 2014, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. As journalists began getting arrested, Poynter sent me back to the city — where I’d spent five years reporting — to cover what was happening. . .”
“Still, while compiling a list of newsrooms in Minnesota to follow for nuanced, accountable, community-centered reporting, I’ve been thinking a lot about the journalists I met more than a decade ago in Ferguson. . .”
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