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Doug Cumming, Ph.D., is an associate professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. During his 26 years as a reporter and editor at newspapers and magazines in Raleigh, N.C., Providence, R.I., and Atlanta, Ga., he won a George Polk Award and a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. He is the author of The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity (Northwestern University Press, 2009), a paperback in Medill's Visions of the American Press series.

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