Shape of Future Forming in Africa, Troy Grad Says ; Reporter Lived, Worked in Uganda, a 'Compelling Place'

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TROY -- While presidential campaigns repeatedly thrust Ohio into the national spotlight in the months before November's election, Julie Shaw found plenty of political fodder receiving little media attention half a world away.

Shaw, a 1985 graduate of Troy High School who worked for the Troy Daily News as a reporter and copy editor from 1989 to 1995, spent mid-August through early December, 2004, as an intern reporting and editing for a weekly newspaper in Uganda. She landed the experience through Ohio University's foreign correspondence intern program.

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Shape of Future Forming in Africa, Troy Grad Says ; Reporter Lived, Worked in Uganda, a 'Compelling Place'

"Once you get used to accepting a certain amount of insecurity and risk, it's a pretty compelling place to live, especially for someone who's interested in news," Shaw said of Uganda.

Shaw visited Gulu, a city in northern Uganda wracked by the Lord's Resistance Army's uprising against the Ugandan government...

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