Jack Lessenberry, who has been with the Motor City alt-weekly for over 25 years, tells the Student Operated Press that he enjoys teaching journalism, but that his students at Wayne State University don't know much about history. The profile traces the highlights of Lessenberry's long career, including his Emmy for a 1995 Frontline documentary on Jack Kevorkian. "I want to create intelligent dialogue about the problems we face today," he says. "I think we need to think about and talk about who we are as a country and who we are as people."

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