Lorrie Lynch was the senior editor and personalities columnist for ''

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'' magazine through 2009.(4 December 2009)
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Biography

Lynch has a

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in Journalism from

Central Michigan University Central Michigan University (CMU) is a public research university in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. Established in 1892 as the Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute, the private normal school became a state institution and renamed Cen ...

, where she was editor of the campus newspaper, ''CM LIFE''. She interviewed entertainment figures and wrote the "Who's News" column in the Sunday magazine. Lynch moved to ''USA Weekend'' from ''

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'', where she was a founding staff member. As a reporter in the News section she covered national stories and Washington politics. As the paper's

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bureau chief she covered western issues and reported the beginning of the nation's

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crisis. As an editor in the "Life" section, she was responsible for the paper's daily celebrity coverage. Lynch also worked for newspapers in

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, Ypsilanti,

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, Mount Pleasant, and Battle Creek,

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. She also worked for ''

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'' and ''The Marin County Independent Journal'', both in

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. Lynch told a Michigan Interscholastic Press Association press conference in August 2007 that she began thinking about writing in second grade because she would get encouragement from her grandmother about writing when she wrote letters. Lynch also is the author of ''Exploring Journalism and the Media'' (2009).http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/meier.cfm

References

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