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Barry
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Dredze
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bdredze@comcast.net
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About
Freelance writer, reporter and editor; former publisher and editor-in-chief of The Winfield Post, bi-monthly independent community newspaper in southwest DuPage County, Illinois, from 2009 to 2013, and of 4our on the Floor, a monthly newspaper serving the international Roller Derby Community from 2015-2016. News; Politics; Culture; Sports.
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Covering the BCup Roller Derby Tournament in Bloomington, IN
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A freelance news story about the media landscape in the small community where I had served as editor-in-chief and publisher of one of three papers, in the form of a lawsuit between the other two.
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A report for The Forward attempting to cut through the sustained and powerful international misinformation campaign against liberal Jewish philanthropist George Soros.
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Reporting an exhibition roller derby game during the 2019 Womens Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Chanpionship Tournament in Montreal. A story of a world-wide sports organization working tirelessly to sustain an amateur sport in a consciously progressive way, upon a principled foundation of radical inclusion.
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