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Jane Spencer is now editor in chief for digital content at Fusion. Spencer, a former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, was a founding editor of The Daily Beast.

Brett Anderson received a first-place award from the Society for Features Journalism for his restaurant reviews in The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune.

Laura Amico has been named news editor for multimedia and data projects at The Boston Globe. Amico, who founded Homicide Watch D.C., had been editor of Boston public radio station…

Raquel Rutledge, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, will be an O’Brien Fellow at Marquette University for the 2014–15 academic year.

Alejandra Matus’s unauthorized biography of General Augusto Pinochet’s widow, Lucia Hiriart, was published in November by Ediciones B. In writing “Doña Lucia,” Matus interviewed friends, relatives, former employees, and former…

Beth Macy’s “Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town” was published in July by Little, Brown. She won the 2013 J. Anthony…

Chris Vognar received a first-place award from the Society for Features Journalism for his film reviews in The Dallas Morning News. The judges praised Vognar for his ability to show…

Julia Reynolds’s book, “Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California’s Nuestra Familia Gang,” will be released in September by Chicago Review Press. Reynolds, a staff writer at The Monterey…

Jenifer McKim, assistant managing editor at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, collaborated with Philip W.D. Martin, NF ’98, on the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning series “Underground Trade.” McKim’s…

Gaiutra Bahadur’s first book, “Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture,” received the 2014 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize, awarded by the Caribbean Studies Association to the best book about…