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Starting a new chapter

'Tis the colorful season of change.

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Malak Silmi
Sep 14, 2024
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This time last year, I took the biggest risk in my journalism career by leaving a job I loved with no plans for what was to come. It didn’t make any sense.

I had a list of stories I was working on about Detroit’s government and began planning for 2024, but I couldn’t shake off the feeling that I no longer saw myself doing the work I thought was important.

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