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Nieman Journalism Lab
Pushing to the future of journalism — A project of the Nieman Foundation at Harvard

Articles by Andrew Phelps

Andrew Phelps is a staff writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab. He is also the inventor of Fuego, a magical app (and Twitter feed) for keeping up with the future of news. Previously, Andrew was a reporter for WBUR, Boston’s NPR News Station, and the chief architect of wbur.org. He was a reporter and anchor at KPBS, San Diego’s public broadcaster, where he produced national award-winning coverage of the 2007 wildfires. Andrew earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California, San Diego. Follow @andrewphelps on Twitter.
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