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Salem Reporter welcomes our first intern

Anna Smith at work on a breaking news graphic (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter)

Our small, local newsroom is getting a boost this summer from our first-ever intern.

Salem Reporter is happy to welcome Anna Smith, who’s aiding our team with graphics and photography this summer.

Smith finished her studies at Lane Community College in June, where she worked as production manager for the college’s award-winning newspaper, The Torch.

After learning about Salem Reporter at a community college newspaper day earlier this year, she reached out about working with our reporters to enhance our visuals and graphics.

Though she’s only on her second week, Smith has already earned several photo and graphics credits.

Amy Froylan laughs as she breaths through a firefighter’s regulator for the first time during Salem-Keizer’s migrant high school program on the Chemeketa Community College Brooks campus (Anna CK Smith/Special to Salem Reporter)

She teamed up with reporter Rachel Alexander to cover a hands-on firefighting course for Salem-Keizer migrant summer school students earlier this week.

Smith put her illustration chops to work for Alexander’s watchdog report on local teachers being assaulted by students, suggesting and executing several graphics for the article.

News illustration by Anna Smith.

Over the summer, she’ll be designing more news graphics for us and working with our reporters to shoot photos and video at local events.

We’re excited to see what else she does and show her how a small newsroom operates.

Rachel Alexander is Salem Reporter’s managing editor. She joined Salem Reporter when it was founded in 2018 and covers city news, education, nonprofits and a little bit of everything else. She’s been a journalist in Oregon and Washington for a decade. Outside of work, she’s a skater and board member with Salem’s Cherry City Roller Derby and can often be found with her nose buried in a book.