Alison Sherwood

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Alison Sherwood is an American journalist. She won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. [1] [2] She works for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. [3]

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She graduated from University of Missouri. In 2016, she participated in the Journalists in the Community program, sponsored by the Wisconsin Humanities Council. [4]

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