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Chelsea Whyte

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Chelsea Whyte is a senior editor at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ. She has worked as a staff journalist at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ since 2017, in previous roles as US Editor, senior news editor, a US reporter and as the physics and space news editor. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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