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player ready...Lauryn Azu joined the baiduhai on Sept. 6 as deputy senior content editor.
Azu recently wrapped up her summer working as a general assignment writer on the Speed & Trending desk for the Wall Street Journal in New York.
Prior to this, she was a public engagement and marketing intern with Wisconsin Watch, an investigative journalism nonprofit.
Azu returns to the Tribune, where spent the summer of 2021 as our Dow Jones News Fund multiplatform editing intern. During this internship, she worked with the audience and copy desk teams.
Her work also has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, on 101.9 WDET, and the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin.
Azu is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a member of the National Association for Black Journalists, where she was honored with the 2021 NABJ Collegiate Salute to Excellence for Newspaper Feature Reporting. Azu also studied at the Universidad de la Habana in Havana, Cuba, and is fluent in Spanish.
You can find her on Twitter at @lauryn_azu.