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David Sommerstein ’93

David Sommerstein ’93, a reporter with North Country Public Radio, received the 2008 National Edward R. Murrow Award for journalism excellence from the Radio–Television News Directors Association for Farm to Farm, Family to Family. This three–part series explored the migration of Mexican and Central American farm workers in and out of rural communities of New York and was judged Best News Series by a small–market station. Additionally, the series won Best News Series and Best Enterprise Reporting from the Associated Press in June. At Wesleyan, Sommerstein was a Spanish major.
David Sommerstein ’93, a reporter with North Country Public Radio, received the 2008 National Edward R. Murrow Award for journalism excellence from the Radio–Television News Directors Association for Farm to Farm, Family to Family. This three–part series explored the migration of Mexican and Central American farm workers in and out of rural communities of New York and was judged Best News Series by a small–market station. Additionally, the series won Best News Series and Best Enterprise Reporting from the Associated Press in June. At Wesleyan, Sommerstein was a Spanish major.