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Alana Rocha
Editor, Rural News Network
Institute for Nonprofit News
About Alana Rocha
Alana Rocha leads INN’s Rural News Network. As editor, Alana works with more than 75 member outlets in 47 states to guide and amplify coverage of remote areas. Alana joined INN after 20 years as a news and politics reporter in Florida, Kansas and Texas. Most recently, she worked for The Texas Tribune — a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization based in Austin — directing news partnerships and producing award-winning multimedia journalism in English and in Spanish. Alana serves as a journalism advisor to the National Literacy Project, News Ambassadors and Washington State University’s Murrow News Fellowship.