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Beginning June 2015, Vanessa began piloting a bilingual newsroom for Reynolds students, an innovative program made possible by the Online News Association Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. The Reynolds School will use the $35,000 grant to establish a student-run Spanish language reporting team through the Nevada Media Alliance to develop bilingual multimedia news coverage ahead of the 2016 presidential election, serving the Latino community of northern Nevada.