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While national politics and celebrity drama command the lion’s share of media clicks, Paige Pfleger spent much of the past 12 months producing deeply researched clips on the deadly relationship between illegal gun ownership and high-risk domestic violence situations in Tennessee. Pfleger, a WPLN journalist and ProPublica Local Reporting Network fellow, ascended to Nashville’s all-star media tier explaining the real crises shared by too many people in Tennessee — as well as possible solutions. Domestic violence, specifically, cuts across race, class and geography, fueled by the state’s deficient stances toward gender-based threats and gun dispossession. Pfleger’s reporting reminds us that it’s something many Tennesseans may not think about until, suddenly, it really, really matters.

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