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Reading Time: < 1minuteOlivia Alley
Please welcome Olivia Alley to our team of journalists.
Alley, 22, is a journalism student at Gonzaga University and will be working as an intern for SpokaneFAVS this Spring.
She is originally from Richland, Wash., and hopes to one day pursue a career in magazine writing or book editing.
If you would like to know more about working as a SpokaneFAVS intern, contact Tracy Simmons at TracySimmons@favs.news.
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.
