U.S.’ largest newspaper proprietor cuts Iowa employees, leaving small papers’ futures in query
Laigha Anderson needed to be her personal particular person. Coming from a giant household Leavenworth, Kansas, that was hardly a given. She needed to get out.
“I didn’t wish to be so-and-so’s daughter or so-and-so’s cousin,” she mentioned. “I simply needed to be Laigha.”
In December 2018, she graduated from the College of St. Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas, and 6 weeks later, she moved from the place she’d spent her younger life to Burlington, Iowa. A small newspaper — “Iowa’s oldest” — employed her on to cowl native authorities.
In February 2019, then-general supervisor of The Hawk Eye Sean Lewis