Melissa Yeager, consumer travel reporter at The Arizona Republic will be leaving to join the Lonely Planet as a senior editor, helping shape the publication’s online travel news coverage.
She previously worked at the Sunlight Foundation in Washington D.C. as a senior staff writer. She was also an investigative reporter at KSHB-TV in Kansas City and held the same post for WINK-TV, the CBS-affiliate in Fort Myers, FL.
She has also worked at outlets in Springfield, Missouri; Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Topeka, Kansas.
Yeager has a B.S.J. from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree from American University.
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