Tyler Wilkins
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Doing Journalism
The Lead: Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Savannah Sicurella, Tyler Wilkins on Starting Out in Business Journalism
Savannah Sicurella and Tyler Wilkins are both recent UGA journalism alumni, making careers in business journalism soon after graduating college and entering the job market. In this episode, they debrief about what drew them to reporting on commercial real estate and development, and how they managed to navigate the learning…
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2020 Election
How To Prepare Yourself For Holiday Political Conversations
While spending a day at her grandmother’s house, Brittani Miles and her father had a disagreement. The father-daughter dispute centered around vote-by-mail fraud, an issue which continues to elicit conversations as President Donald Trump claims President-elect Joe Biden “stole” the 2020 presidential election despite a failure to offer substantial evidence.…
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2020 Election
Why Some People Won’t Vote in This Year’s Election
The first day of early voting in Georgia saw long lines around polling precinct locations. While political scientists expect U.S. voter turnout could reach up to 65%, that means about 35% of the voting-eligible population won’t cast a ballot and have their voices heard. Jeffery Glas, a political science professor…
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2020 Election
How to Cast Your Ballot in the General Election
Driven by the COVID-19 pandemic to put pens to paper, a record 1.1 million Georgians voted by mail in the June 9 primary. County officials across the state rejected about 1%, or almost 12,000, of those absentee ballots for various reasons, said Walter Jones, a communications consultant for Georgia’s Secretary…