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Q&A: Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez On Covering School Shootings

NPR Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez tells NPR Extra his thoughts on covering school shootings and what may be the future of the education beat.
Source: Eric Lee

Behind the Stories features perspectives from the reporters, editors and producers who create NPR's content, offering insights into how and why they do what they do. For this post, we sat down with NPR Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez to talk about his piece, "What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me"?

What drew you to report on education?

I didn't plan on covering the education beat. I spent most of my reporting career on the U.S.-Mexico border writing about politics, immigration, drug smuggling and the Latino community.

[I came to NPR] to wear two hats. I was going to dabble in

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