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THE FINAL. Gives High School Sports a Newsroom

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A digital sports publication covering high school athletics through game reports, player features, rankings, and photography.

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THE FINAL. begins with Indiana boys hockey and builds its coverage around a paid student press corps: high school writers and photographers earning real bylines while covering their own communities. It is a concrete experiment in treating local school sports like a beat rather than a buried scoreline.

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