The stories on this website were reported and written by students from the Elon University School of Communications during one week in November 2019. They were enrolled in a course titled Journalism in a Free Society, taught by Professor Anthony Hatcher.
The 21 student journalists were divided into seven teams of three reporters each. They visited truck stops and a state rest stop along a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 40/85 in Alamance County, North Carolina, collecting the stories of travelers and truckers passing through the Piedmont region of the state. The students did the interviews, took the photos, and wrote the stories as news staffers. The professor served as editor and publisher. Any comments should be sent to ahatcher@elon.edu.
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