Lane DeGregory is an American journalist who works for the ''Tampa Bay Times''—

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. She won the

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in 2009, recognizing "The Girl In the Window" (August 3, 2008)—"her moving, richly detailed story of a neglected little girl, found in a roach-infested room, unable to talk or feed herself, who was adopted by a new family committed to her nurturing." DeGregory has won dozens of other national journalism awards and has taught at universities and conferences across the country. In 2011, she was named a fellow by the Society of Professional Journalists. DeGregory created a newspaper for her elementary school and was Editor-in-Chief of her high school newspaper in

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. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in Rhetoric & Communication Studies from the

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. As an undergraduate, she was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper ''

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''.

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