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NANCY COOK LAUER
Stephens Media Group

Nancy Cook Lauer is the Hawaii state Capitol reporter for Stephens Media Group, whose newspapers include West Hawaii Today, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A charter member of Capitolbeat, she also belongs to IRE and is an active contributor to the IRE, NICAR and Newslib listservs. Prior to joining Stephens Media, she was Capitol bureau chief for the Tallahassee Democrat, where she won a first place for beat reporting in her circulation category from Capitolbeat.

Cook Lauer holds a bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, in psychology from Old Dominion University, where she started at age 16 and worked her way through college. She also has a master's degree in library and information studies from Florida State University.