Hey guys we have a double-headed today coming from two state-based journalists who I really respect you

are doing great work Justin Canoe at the Tennessee Holler he's going to talk about the anniversary of the

Covenant shooting and the follow-up from the Tennessee three that happened in the days and weeks after that.

And then we have Justin Fenton from the Baltimore Banner talking about the bridge collapse.

Local journalism is being hollowed out.

And I want in this episode for us to discuss both of those very important issues,

but also the state of local journalism and models for fixing it.

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Up next, Justin Canoe from the Tennessee Haller. All right at long last been wanted to do this for a while. I'm here with my friend

Justin canoe founder of the Tennessee Holler, a digital news site.

He was also a two-time contest on the amazing race.

I don't know if we're enough time to talk about that.

We're on the one-year anniversary today of the tragic shooting of the Covenant School in Nashville,

and so I wanted to talk about that, fallout for that, what happened with the Tennessee Three,

but first I really just want to kind of talk about your origin story in the origin story of the Tennessee Holler which I think is

Probably the best local

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