Chris Olwell

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Concentration: Reporter/Writer
Hometown: Duluth, Minn.
Bio: Chris usually likes to write unusually about unusual things. He studied journalism and history at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and graduated in spring 2008. While in school, he wrote news articles and opinion pieces for the school's newspaper, The Statesman, and wrote features for an arts Web site. He interned at the Duluth News Tribune as a reporter and covered Al Franken's Senate campaign, poetry slams and gritty bars. He did field work for the New York Post on a congressman's infidelity. After Poynter, Chris would like an awesome writing job with a newspaper or magazine.
E-mail: colwell@poynter.org