WILL; a production of Illinois Public Media.

News editor and co-publisher Will Brumleve sits at his desk at the Ford County Chronicle in front of awards and text from the First Amendment. He and co-founder Andrew Rosten launched the newspaper in Paxton, Illinois, in 2020, one of the few new papers in the U.S. in recent years.

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