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Emily Sanderson is a senior broadcast journalism major at the University of Missouri. She will graduate in the spring of 2018 with an emphasis in news producing. She is currently reporting for KOMU 8 News, the NBC affiliate servicing mid-Missouri, and fact-checking for Politifact Missouri. She has also spent time reporting for KBIA-FM, Columbia’s NPR member station, and as a producing intern at WTTW-11, the PBS affiliate in Chicago.

Featured Statements

Cora Faith Walker
stated on November 9, 2017 in a guest commentary in the St. Louis American:

"The average life expectancy for African Americans in Saint Louis and Saint Louis County varies by as much as 18 years compared to the white population, with nearly half of all African-American kids under the age of 18 living in poverty."

By Emily Sanderson • December 25, 2017
Ann Wagner
stated on November 1, 2017 in a campaign website:

"Satanists have teamed up with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood in Missouri to roll back the rights of the unborn."

By Emily Sanderson • November 24, 2017
Stacey Newman
stated on October 2, 2017 in a Missourinet article:

"Part of this omnibus gun bill that year (was) legalizing machine guns in the state of Missouri."

By Emily Sanderson • November 3, 2017
Eric Greitens
stated on August 13, 2017 in a Facebook live video:

"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."

By Emily Sanderson • October 21, 2017
William Lacy Clay
stated on August 18, 2017 in an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

"Calling for the assassination of the president is a federal crime."

By Emily Sanderson • September 15, 2017