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Podcast: Our Two Cents Podcast
Episode: 144 - The Rise In New Forms of Media
Description: Richard Beene was raised in Atlanta and graduated from Georgia Southern University. He worked at The Los Angeles Times for seven years and was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team of reporters and editors who covered the Rodney King riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He also spent seven years overseas working as a foreign correspondent, living and working in Egypt, Spain, and Mexico. Richard has lived in Bakersfield since 1994 where he has served on numerous local boards and organizations, including serving as president of the Bakersfield Museum of Art board of trustees and president of the Rotary Club...