Paige Masten | Lead Stories
Paige Masten is a staff writer and fact-checker at Lead Stories. She is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill studying journalism and economics. She serves as the assistant opinion editor at The Daily Tar Heel, where she primarily writes about state, local and university politics. She hopes to one day live in Washington D.C. and pursue a career in public service.
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