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Caleb Slinkard is the Executive Editor of the Georgia Trust for Local News and Managing Editor of the Macon Melody. He began his career in Texas as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, the Greenville Herald Banner, and two years later became the paper’s senior editor. Slinkard has run newspapers in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Georgia and taught journalism and practicum courses at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mercer University. He was born in Bryan/College Station, Texas to Gary and Susan Slinkard. He has a twin brother, Joshua, and a younger brother, Nathan, as well as two nephews and a niece. He enjoys playing pickleball, chess, reading and hiking around Middle Georgia in his free time.

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