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The Wire

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The Papers

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A note for students: these are real outlets, role-played for the simulation. Anything you create for the simulation outside this site — social-media accounts, posts, mock front pages, anything public — must be clearly marked as fictional UC Merced simulation work, so it can never be mistaken for the real newspaper.