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Reading Time: < 1minuteMeet Al Stover, our third intern 1
Spokane Faith & Values has three interns this semester.
Al Stover is the newest addition to our team. He's a journalism major at Eastern Washington University and an editor for the Easterner.
He enjoys sports writing, but has a passion for journalism and wants to give all beats a try. For us he'll be writing articles and assisting with our many social media sites.
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.
