Corinne Colbert (she/her) worked for newspapers in Wheeling, WV and Martins Ferry, Marietta and Marysville, Ohio, before leaving journalism to work in nonprofit and freelance communications. She returned to the newsroom in June 2021 as editor of the Athens News but was suddenly fired in February 2022 for warning readers about deceptive advertising in the publication. Her tweets about her firing went viral and inspired a crowdfunding campaign that earned more than $18,000 to launch an independent nonprofit newsroom in Athens County. The Athens County Independent published its first story in August 2022. In 2023, the Independent was named a finalist in the Future of News Division of the Next Challenge and selected for Indiegraf's News Startup Fund.

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Education
1997
Ohio University
Journalism

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