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James Douglas (Doug) Watson, Managing Editor of The Greeneville Sun from 1990-2011 and a widely known figure in the community, passed away peacefully Tuesday at his home after several years of declining health. Mr. Watson had a long and outstanding career in journalism, both in the United States and as a foreign correspondent, following his graduation from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1965.
A full obituary will be published later. A Celebration of Life service is anticipated, but, in light of current health concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic, the service will be postponed until a future time.
Maya Rodriguez
Maya Rodriguez is a National Correspondent, reporting for all E.W. Scripps television stations across the country. She is based in Washington, D.C., but she travels extensively from coast to coast and around the world for stories of interest.
Previously, she was a Miami-based correspondent for NBC News. During her time there, Rodriguez covered Hurricane Harvey s landfall in Texas, the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville and the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Prior to that, she spent three years as a television reporter at KUSA-TV, the NBC affiliate station in Denver, Colorado. While there, she covered environmental issues, as well as the state s aerospace industry. Rodriguez also traveled to Panama for stories on a Colorado company s role in expanding the Panama Canal and reported on Europe s migrant crisis from Germany, the Czech Republic and Belgium.
Joseph Shapiro is a NPR News Investigations correspondent.
Shapiro s major investigative stories include his reports on the way rising court fines and fees create an unequal system of justice for the poor and the rise of modern day debtors prisons, the failure of colleges and universities to punish for on-campus sexual assaults, the epidemic of sexual assault of people with intellectual disabilities, the problems with solitary confinement, the inadequacy of civil rights laws designed to get the elderly and people with disabilities out of nursing homes, and the little-known profits involved in the production of medical products from donated human cadavers.
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We’ve found the perfect person to lead our White House coverage as we begin the Biden years: Sam Stein.