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Penn Students Cover Presidential Candidates

The Indiana primary election takes place Tuesday, May 3, and that means the road to the White House is coming through the Michiana area!

A group of passionate Penn journalism students are on the Campaign Trail providing coverage on Penn News Network (PNN) to the rest of the P-H-M community. Since last Tuesday, April 26, three of the five Presidential Candidates have been made stops in our area, with Ted Cruz coming twice.

The students first covered Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton’s visit to Mishawaka’s AM General Plant on April 26 (click here to see the Clinton coverage). Republican hopeful Ted Cruz held a rally the following Thursday, April 28, at the Century Center in downtown South Bend (click here to see the Cruz coverage). Democrat Bernie Sanders also held a rally at the Century Center on Sunday, May 1 … and the students were there covering it with the rest of the local media (click here to see the Sanders coverage).

This morning (Monday, May 2) Cruz came back to Michiana visiting Bravo Cave in Osceola, not far from Penn; however, with this event being during the school day, the students did not cover this event. But they will be back downtown this evening (Monday, May 2) when Republican Donald Trump rolls into town for his rally at the Century Center (click here to see the Trump coverage).

The Penn student reporters have even made the mainstream news themselves being profiled by WSBT-TV and ABC 57.

PNN has a daily report that is broadcast to Penn’s student body covering a variety of topics from school news to results of athletic games to weather to local and national issues. These reports along with feature stories are available on PNN’s website.