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Liisa Hyvarinen Temple is a freelance multimedia reporter and producer based in Tampa, Florida. As of Fall 2008, she also is a Visiting Professor at the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. Prior to joining USF, Hyvarinen Temple worked in print and broadcast both in the US and overseas. She produced the first in-depth interview of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's mother and, while working at WSPA-TV in South Carolina, was responsible for coverage of Susan Smith, convicted of drowning her two sons in a local lake. She used her extraordinary Dart Fellowship experience to report about genocide victims in Rwanda. Her work has appeared in Marie Claire, St Petersburg Times, Chicago Tribune and Denver Post as well as on CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS (on networks and on various affiliates). Her primary focus currently is http://afghanistanmylasttour.com/ -- a blog that follows her husband Rex Temple's year-long tour of combat duty in Afghanistan from May 2009 to May 2010.