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USA Today taps Villagran to serve as national reporter

Lauren Villagran

Lauren Villagran will join USA Today as a national reporter to cover immigration and national news. Since May 2019, she has been a border reporter at El Paso Times, part of the USA Today Network.

Villagran has also worked as a staff reporter at the nonprofit Searchlight New Mexico and was a border correspondent at the Albuquerque Journal.

She was a Mexico City correspondent at CBS Interactive and has freelanced for The Dallas Morning News, Fox News Latino, The Christian Science Monitor and The Associated Press. She also worked as a business reporter at The Associated Press.

Villagran has a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.

Be sure to congratulate Villagran on X/Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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