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How The BBC Tapped A Local Reporter To Cover Kentucky’s Flood Recovery

Inside Appalachia host Mason Adams spoke with Katie Myers and Philip Reevell about the process of making a documentary in this way, with one reporter from the area and another from an overseas outlet. 

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Organizations Set To Provide Resources, Donations After Kentucky Flooding

Appalachians are still feeling the effects of flooding in eastern Kentucky, southern Virginia, and parts of West Virginia. At least 37 people have died as a result, according to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.

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Appalshop Inundated By Historic Kentucky Floods

Last week’s flooding in eastern Kentucky devastated towns and lives. Appalshop, the organization that has documented the lives of the people from the region for more than 50 years is right in the middle of the floods in Whitesburg.

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Student Journalists Document The Pandemic In Appalachia

Buchanan is a student documentarian with the Appalachian Media Institute, a program in Whitesburg, Kentucky, that trains Appalachian young people to document the region through their own lens.

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