On this episode Mark Simon is joined by Maddie Carr. Maddie is just starting graduate school for investigative and data journalism at the University of Missouri. She is a graduate of Emporia State University with a sociology degree. In 2024 she became the first college student to be named Kansas Journalist of the Year by the Kansas Press Association.

On this episode we’re joined by Maddie Carr. Maddie is just starting graduate school for investigative and data journalism at the University of Missouri. She is a graduate of Emporia State University with a sociology degree. In 2024 she became the first college student to be named Kansas Journalist of the Year by the Kansas Press Association. We’ll talk to her about that and much more.

Maddie talked about the work she’s done to this point in her career, including the investigative piece that won her that big award. She also shared about her battle with imposter syndrome while working an internship at the Topeka Capital-Journal. And she explained why she wanted to go the graduate school.

Maddie’s coverage of professor’s sexual harassment history

https://esubulletin.com/10768/news/esu-assistant-dean-resigns-amid-public-outcry-of-sexual-harassment-its-not-the-first-time/

They grow up so fast (story about her brothers)

https://esubulletin.com/20165/opinion/they-grow-up-so-fast/

Maddie’s salutes: Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Steal This Story Please, and Stacy Saldanha-Olson of the Topeka Capital-Journal.

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