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Student Journalist Settles With ASU After Being Fired Over Tweet About Jacob Blake

Ashe Schow
Student Journalist Settles With ASU After Being Fired Over Tweet About Jacob Blake
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A journalism student has settled with Arizona State University after she was fired from a radio job over what happened after she tweeted about the sexual assault allegations against Jacob Blake, who was shot while police were trying to execute a warrant for his arrest.

The New York Post reported that Rae’Lee Klein, who attended the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, was fired as station manager of the school’s radio station, Blaze Radio, after she tweeted an article about the sexual assault allegations against Blake. Her tweet allegedly offended other students in the organization, which prompted her firing.

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