{"id":33020,"date":"2022-06-21T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/policy-watch-team-welcomes-new-investigative-reporter\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:35:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T18:35:19","slug":"policy-watch-team-welcomes-new-investigative-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/policy-watch-team-welcomes-new-investigative-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Watch team welcomes new investigative reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"description\">\n<div id=\"attachment_143203\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143203\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-143203 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/s39337.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kelan-Lyons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s39337.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kelan-Lyons.jpg 240w, https:\/\/s39337.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kelan-Lyons-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/s39337.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kelan-Lyons-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-143203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NC Policy Watch investigative reporter Kelan Lyons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The NC Policy Watch team is delighted to announce the addition of another outstanding journalist to its team \u2014 investigative reporter Kelan Lyons.<\/p>\n<p>Lyons, who received a masters degree in 2016 from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, joins Policy Watch after successful stints with newsrooms in Texas, Utah, and most recently, Connecticut, where he conducted a variety of in-depth investigations as a Justice and Mental Health Reporter for the award-winning nonprofit online news outlet, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ctmirror.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Connecticut Mirror<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At Policy Watch, Lyons will focus on issues related to the criminal and civil justice systems as well elections, voting, and threats to democracy .<\/p>\n<p>As he <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kelan_lyons\/status\/1539213332531535872?s=21&amp;t=9eq-2dLFrTjWoNzKLaeu9Q\" rel=\"noopener\">noted on Twitter<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today\u2019s my first day at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCPolicyWatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">@NCPolicyWatch<\/a>! If there\u2019s someone I should talk to in the world of North Carolina politics and policy regarding courts, law, and criminal justice, please send them my way. More importantly, please send bbq recs. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LtqkAbeGdK\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/LtqkAbeGdK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kel Lyons (@Kelan_Lyons) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kelan_Lyons\/status\/1539213332531535872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can contact Kelan at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#5239373e333c123c31223d3e3b312b253326313a7c313d3f\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"b6ddd3dad7d8f6d8d5c6d9dadfd5cfc1d7c2d5de98d5d9db\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a> or 919-861-1460.<\/p>\n<p><!-- .share-links --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/2022\/06\/21\/policy-watch-team-welcomes-new-investigative-reporter\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] NC Policy Watch investigative reporter Kelan Lyons The NC Policy Watch team is delighted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}