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Amy Augustine '07, Reporting Live from Istanbul

If you were watching WMUR news (out of Manchester, NH) on Oct. 24, you probably saw Amy Augustine ‘07, reporting live from Istanbul on the recent earthquake in Turkey. Augustine graduated from Keene State with a degree in journalism and political science and went to work at the Concord Monitor as a news intern. She rose from there to become a regional reporter and then became the editor of the Concord Insider, the Monitor’s weekly supplement.

She stayed at the Monitor about four years and just recently took a job writing and copy editing for Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, the oldest current English- language daily in Istanbul.

“It’s a great paper and Istanbul is a fun city,” Augustine reports. “Turkey is an exciting place to be right now because it’s a growing regional power in the Middle East and a strategically important country. I’m doing my best to learn Turkish but the job can be very taxing. Anyway, I plan to stay here for about a year before I go back to the states to get married. My fiance, unfortunately, couldn’t join me because of his commitment to the family business, Grappone Automotive Group in Bow.”

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