Complex sentence: As a reporter, Newson covered the Civil Rights Movement, school desegregation, voting rights, and other events related domestic human rights stories; he soon after becomes a city editor with the "Tri-State Defender".
Split into simpler sentences: As a reporter, Newson covered the Civil Rights Movement, school desegregation, voting rights, and other events related to domestic human rights stories. He soon became a city editor with the "Tri-State Defender".