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Charlotte Tries To Catch 'Em All With The Pokemon Go App

WFAE | By Sarah Delia

Published July 12, 2016 at 5:19 PM EDT

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Some Pokemon captured with the Pokemon Go App.

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Over the past week, you may have noticed a strange new phenomenon…people staring down at their phones…not to read text messages…but to catch Pokemon. The game invented in the mid 1990’s is seeing a resurgence around the country through the Pokemon Go app. WFAE’s Sarah Delia went on the hunt for would-be Pokemon masters.

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Sarah Delia

Sarah Delia is a Senior Producer for Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins. Sarah joined the WFAE news team in 2014. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, Sarah has lived and told stories from Maine, New York, Indiana, Alabama, Virginia and North Carolina. Sarah received her B.A. in English and Art history from James Madison University, where she began her broadcast career at college radio station WXJM. Sarah has interned and worked at NPR in Washington DC, interned and freelanced for WNYC, and attended the Salt Institute for Radio Documentary Studies.

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