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Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, the Education Beat Writer for the San Antonio Express-News, Talks to Wayne Pierce about Covering the Legislature

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Equity Center Radio | June 25, 2010 | Wayne Pierce, the Executive Director of the Equity Center Talks with the Education Beat Writer for the San Antonio Express-News, Jenny LaCoste-Caputo. She Gives our Listeners an Inside Look at What it is Like for a Beat Writer to Cover our Legislature.

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Wayne Pierce, Equity Center’s Executive Director, in today’s broadcast, interviews Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, the education beat writer for the San Antonio Express-News. In this lively conversation Ms. LaCoste-Caputo discusses her role in reporting on the legislature and the differences in techniques and, indeed, types of stories, between her and the regular capital reporters. She feels that given her in-depth knowledge in the field of education and unique background, she at times actually has an edge.

Jenny LaCoste-Caputo has been a member of the San Antonio Express-News Education Team since August 2004, when she joined the newspaper. She’s the team’s senior education writer, covering the city’s two largest school districts, as well as focusing on policy issues such as school funding and reform and has won several awards for her education coverage in Texas.

Before moving to Texas, Jenny worked for the Pensacola (Fl.) News Journal where she covered education for six years, winning state and national awards for her work reporting on the voucher debate in Florida, issues facing high-poverty, high-minority schools and environmental links to developmental disorders and learning disabilities. Prior to that, Jenny worked for the Northwest Florida Daily News and the Clovis (N.M.) News Journal.

Ms. LaCoste-Caputo graduated from the University of Maryland University College in Tokyo, Japan in 1995 with a degree in history, with an emphasis in journalism. While living in Japan for three years, Jenny worked for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools program as a special education tutor at Edgren High School on Misawa Air Base. She also was a substitute and taught English as a second language to Japanese students – experiences that sparked an interest in education that never went away.



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