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WVU journalism professor's research about 1968 mine disaster featured on NPRA

West Virginia University journalism professor’s research about the 1968 Farmington mine disaster was featured Nov. 19 on a National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” segment.

P.I. Reed School of Journalism assistant professor Bonnie Stewart has been researching the disaster for more than a year. What she uncovered 40 years after the tragedy sheds new light on why 78 men died in the mine that fateful day.

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