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Legislative coverage to be handled by two recent UK grads Two December graduates of the University of Kentucky’s journalism program will be taking on the duties of providing legislative coverage for KPA member newspapers. Patrick Avery and Mark Vanderhoff have been hired as legislative reporters for the 2002 session of the Kentucky General Assembly. Both will fill requests from newspapers for stories and photos and contribute jointly to the weekly legislative roundup. “They may be recent grads, but both these young men are already seasoned reporters,” said KPA Member Services Director Lisa Carnahan. “Both have had multiple internships and worked extensively for UK’s daily student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel.” Vanderhoff, a native of Louisville with a double major in journalism and natural resources and conservation management, was editor-in-chief at the Kernel in 2000. He’s had reporting internships at The Kentucky Post, The Courier-Journal and Lexington Herald-Leader. During his last semester at UK, he worked on a contract basis for the Herald-Leader as the paper’s night cops reporter. Avery’s a journalism graduate whose studies at UK also had a concentration in American culture. He’s had reporting internships at the Lexington Herald-Leader and The Messenger-Inquirer. He served as features editor for the Kentucky Kernel for four semesters. Inquiries will be sent (by fax and e-mail) to KPA member papers, asking them to notify us if they are interested in receiving the legislative reports from KPA and they method they wish to receive them. Avery and Vanderhoff will also take assignments for papers on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those requests can be made by calling 800-264-5721. “The legislative coverage we’ve provided for the past several years has really grown and means a great deal to many of our papers,” said Carnahan. “For non-AP newspapers, it can be the only source of news out of the state capital that many of the papers’ readers get. “It can also be a variety of things, depending on what the paper needs — from only running the weekly legislative roundup to using it for specialized stories ranging from a full story of a committee meeting, to grabbing a quote from the local legislator for a story the paper is working on.”
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