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The Messenger hires Dent as reporter

Alec Dent

Alec Dent has joined The Messenger as a reporter. Recently, he served as a staff writer at The Dispatch.

Dent joined The Dispatch in March 2020 as a fact checker. He then served as a lead fact checker and then as fact check editor. He then became a culture editor.

Dent graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he worked at the student paper, The Daily Tar Heel.

Be sure to congratulate Dent on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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