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Spokane Faith & Values is pleased to welcome two journalism interns to its team.

Charlene O'Connor is a senior at Whitworth University where she is working toward a bachelor's degree in communications, with minors in sociology and theology.

Christopher Robertson is majoring in  journalism at Bellevue College and spent several years studying world religions.

Both students will be spending the next few months writing news articles for the website, and will also assist in copy editing and social media marketing.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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Eric Blauer
11 years ago

What superpowers do wield or wish they had?
Have they ever eaten anything we would call a pet?
Do they regularly jaywalk?
Do they use public bathrooms or wait until home?
Do they park on or too close to the painted line?
Do they order seven prefix type coffee drinks?
Are they prone to regifting?
Do they talk to thier pets like they are spouses?
Do they pretend to be taking notes on their smart-gadgets but really are checking facebook?
Do they have any tattoos we should be concerned about?
What’s their gamer tags?
Do they LARP?
Who was their JH superstar crush and do they still harbor feelings for such person?

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
11 years ago

We shall see!

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