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Mario García is senior adviser for news design and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Journalism and the CEO and founder of García Media. He has redesigned more than 750 publications in 120 countries, including the National Catholic Reporter. He has authored 15 books; his latest is AI: The Next Revolution in Content Creation.
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Born in Rome, Andrea Sarubbi has been a journalist since the mid-1990s. He spent many years at Vatican Radio, worked with Italian public television as the host of a Catholic program on Rai 1 and later joined TV2000, the network of the Italian Bishops' Conference. Since 2020, he has directed The Pope Video, an international project of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network in collaboration with Vatican Media. He has been a longtime volunteer for various Catholic NGOs and served as a member of the Italian Parliament.
<div style="font-size: 19px; font-family: 'Georgia', serif;"><p><em><strong>Editor's note:</strong> The Francis Chronicles newsletter will end with this edition. National Catholic Reporter thanks our readers for joining us as we followed Pope Francis' remarkable papacy. We conclude with a special retrospective on "Francis, the comic strip" from cartoonist Pat Marrin. </em></p>
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