Madelyn Porter ( Maddie to her friends) has been named the summer 2021 Truth Has a Voice Intern at Ark Valley Voice. The 10-week internship is funded by a grant to Ark Valley Voice from the Truth Has a Voice Foundation, which received educational funding from the Chaffee County Community Foundation.
Maddie Porter is the newest AVV intern. Ark Valley Voice file photo.
Porter, who just graduated from Salida High School, plans to attend Western Washington University in the fall, with hopes of pursuing a career in journalism. While in high school, Porter was a reporter and ad manager for the school paper, The Tenderfoot Times. She was an election judge for the county during the 2020 election.
“I am particularly proud of the election stories I put out during the 2020 election,” says Porter.” I felt as a student interested in politics that I had the ability to make political content more accessible to those who feel less passionate about the subject.”
“We were so thrilled by young folks wanting to be judges this year, and it really helped us,” said Chaffee County Clerk and Recorder Lori Mitchell about Porter and the other young election judges who volunteered to work during the 2020 election. “It was good to see them get involved, and paying attention to civic issues. Our young judges were so bright and smart and civic-minded.”
Porter is the seventh intern at Ark Valley Voice during its three-year history, and the first representing a new high-school-age internship program just developed by AVV.
Other AVV interns have come from Boston College, Western State University, Colorado State University, Michigan State University, and Adams State University. AVV’s winter news marketing intern Torey Wyman, from Colorado State University, was placed and funded by the Colorado Press Association.
“We believe in the educational benefits of internships, and in the training necessary to develop the critical thinking skills and abilities to do good reporting,” says AVV Managing Editor Jan Wondra. “We’re pleased to be able to offer training for future journalists. Democracy depends upon fact-based journalism bringing transparency to the work of our governments and the workings of our community.”
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