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Meet our new editors
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She has over a decade of newsroom experience. She worked at several daily and weekly newspapers throughout western Pennsylvania, covering everything from education and community news to police and courts.
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While at Farm and Dairy, Wagoner grew and deepened the newspaper’s energy coverage to explore how the clean energy transition is impacting rural communities and how the legacy of fossil fuel extraction is still impacting farmers today. She has won state, national and international awards for her writing and reporting, including stories on farmer suicide and mental health, beginning farmers and the dairy industry.
Welch. Welch grew up in the southeast corner of Portage County, Ohio, and attended Kent State University. She earned a Bachelor of Science in magazine journalism with a business minor.
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The bulk of Welch’s professional career prior to Farm and Dairy was spent in the sports department of the Record-Courier where she stretched a summer internship into five years of high school sports reporting as a freelancer and a staff writer.
She also worked at The Vindicator early in her career and did freelance work for SB Nation
Some career highlights include covering the Mogadore High School football team’s journey to the state championship in 2015, the women’s basketball NCAA Final Four in 2016 and the NBA Finals in 2015 and 2016.
She traded second-shift and long nights on the road for a quiet office in the back of the building, writing web content, when her daughter started kindergarten. In the seven years since, she’s fallen in love with conservation, wildlife and northeast Ohio’s unique ecosystems; she’s grown to respect the long hours and incredible risks farmers face every day and she’s written hundreds of how to’s featured on farmanddairy. com.
Welch couldn’t be more excited to work with Wagoner, writing Farm and Dairy’s next chapter, and she’s looking forward to connecting with readers across the rural landscapes of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
(Editor Rachel Wagoner can be reached at rachel@farmanddairy.com or 724-2011544. Managing Editor Sara Welch can be reached at sara@farmanddairy.com.)
