How Student Journalists at Mizzou are Telling a Local Story That’s Become National

For Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, the story didn’t start when football players protested, or when a student went on a hunger strike, or with any one of the documented racist incidents making news lately. For her, the story began way before it spread to the ?University of Missouri Columbia with Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.

For a lot of students, she said, that was an awakening.