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Closson named metro reporter at NY Times

Troy Closson

After a successful run as a Times fellow, The New York Times has named Troy Closson as a metro reporter.

Previously, he has worked as a reporting fellow at the Texas Tribune and as a metro reporting intern at the Chicago Sun-Times. He was also a reporting intern at Block Club Chicago and has written on occasion for ProPublica.

Closson is a B.S. in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where he was print managing editor of The Daily Northwestern.

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