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GroundTruth

Charles Sennott, Wilson Liévano, Alana Campbell
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    Wilson Liévano is GroundTruth’s Managing Editor. Previously he ran Animated Press, his motion graphics studio. Before that, he coordinated the online editorial operations of Spanish-language edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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