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Jeff Achen is the online editor and staff videographer for Thisweek Newspapers. Jeff joined Thisweek Newspapers in September 2005 as the Apple Valley editor. He has reported for the Times newspaper in Thief River Falls and WDAZ Channel 8 television in Grand Forks, N. D. He's also interned at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice in San Diego, an extension of his graduate studies on the role of the news media in conflict. Jeff graduated from the University of North Dakota in 2001 with his bachelor of arts in communication and secondary education certification with a history minor. He obtained his master of arts in communication in May 2005. He is a four-year veteran of the U.S. Navy, 1993-97, and served in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Nepal as a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2002-03. During his graduate study, he taught basic and advanced media writing, video editing and production, and public speaking courses. In addition to his role as Thisweek online editor, Jeff also serves as a multimedia journalist and staff videographer at Thisweek and represents Minnesota journalists as a board member of the Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in Apple Valley with his wife Jennifer and daughter Kaitlyn.
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