Andrea Salcedo
Andrea Salcedo is a ProPublica Emerging Reporter for 2017-18. A senior majoring in multimedia journalism at Columbia College Chicago, she is interested in covering immigration, criminal justice and policing issues.
Andrea Salcedo is a senior at Columbia College in Chicago, where she majors in multimedia journalism, and was the campus editor for the school’s newspaper, The Columbia Chronicle. She has won first place for in-depth reporting from the Illinois College Press Association. Salcedo has interned with the Chicago Sun-Times, CNN en Español and Chicago’s City Bureau. She won a Columbia Journalism School fellowship to attend the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in Phoenix last year. Salcedo is interested in covering criminal justice, immigration and policing issues. She is from Panama.
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