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Article: Raimondo brings real-world experience to WVU students

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September 25, 2009
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Lois Raimondo has seen children die, studied honor killings and investigated corruption and the Mafia.

Raimondo, a new professor at West Virginia University's Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism, brings years of real-world journalism experience to her students, who she hopes will think critically about themselves and their work.

She worked for 11 years as a journalist with The Washington Post and has specialized in both photography and writing. She's covered world issues in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and in Hanoi, Vietnam.

This fall, the school's new Shott Chair in journalism is teaching an introduction to photojournalism course in Morgantown.

"They're working with cameras but it's about much ...

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