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Vanessa Barchfield
Arizona Public Media (AZPM) announces the appointment of Vanessa Barchfield as news reporter for NPR 89.1 and Classical 90.5.
A Tucson native, Barchfield graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2004. The next year she studied journalism at Sophia College in Mumbai, India.
She then moved to Sao Paulo to work as a reporter with Business News Americas, a Latin American newswire. Over the past six years, she lived in Vienna, where she worked as an editor with the Economist Group and the United Nations.
Before joining Arizona Public Media, Vanessa spent several months learning radio production at the Transom Story Workshop in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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