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Editors and reporters face tough questions every day: Should we chase this tip? Is this meeting worth covering? How do we shed light on issues that affect the most people?

Julie Hirshan Hart of the Laconia Daily Sun in New Hampshire says her newsroom would cover everything if they had the staff, but with only two re

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