Journalism students at the University of Technology (UTS) know first hand about the city protests focusing on climate change but now they are learning first-hand how it affects regional communities in NSW.
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For two weeks the students are spreading out across the State to see how regional communities are living with climate change, as part of the university's regional reporting project.
A team of five students, Emily Kowal, Melanie Wong, Soofia Tariq, Alex Turner-Cohen and photographer Mark Kriedemann, are in the Manning-Great Lakes this week. Team are also visiting in Bega, then Dubbo and finally Tamworth.
Their lecturer is former Manning River Times cadet, Sue Stephenson. Sue, who is also a multimedia editor, has had a long career in the media reporting and producing for television, for which she received many awards including a Logie.
Sue has created the award-winning news website centralnews.com.au as a platform for her students.
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