Meet the Local 'News Militia' Covering East Lansing, Mich.

Posted Friday, March 30, 2018 4:29 pm

Joseph Lichterman | The Lenfest Institute

A “news militia” has taken up pens and notepads in East Lansing, Mich. with a mission to inform the community.

That’s what Alice Dreger, the publisher of East Lansing Info, calls the scrappy bunch fighting for freedom of information by working for East Lansing Info, a nonprofit site that covers local news in East Lansing.

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Meet the Local 'News Militia' Covering East Lansing, Mich.

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