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Have communities kept learning from their past emergencies?

Deadline, a contest based at the University of Costa Rica, challenges journalism students to create a story for publication in a Costa Rican outlet—for some, their first ever—in less than 24 hours. Cristian Mora Pérez and David José Bolaños Jiménez set the goal of publishing a story at El Colectivo 506. We asked them to […]

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