Lori Henson, Ph.D., joined Rebuild Local News this fall as Government Advertising Policy Manager. Her role is to help direct government advertising budgets to local newsrooms. She spent the past six years as a community organizer and media literacy advocate in Terre Haute, Indiana. She made the shift to news policy work after 20 years teaching college journalism in Indiana. Before that, she worked in newspapers in Indiana, Georgia, Idaho, and Illinois.