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Samuel Larreal

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Samuel formerly covered technology and politics for NOTUS.

He studied journalism and multimedia communications at Florida International University, where he reported on migrant communities for Caplin News, one of FIU’s student newspapers. He has also worked as a bilingual fact-checker at the Miami Herald and a local news intern at NBC4 Washington and Telemundo 44. He was a 2024 election correspondent at Teen Vogue.

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