Olivia Wisdom, a senior at Salem High School, has been selected to fill the Vickery Internship at The Salem News.
The one-year paid internship includes working at the newspaper learning basics of journalism, according to publisher Donald Dodd.
“The Vickery intern program has been great for the newspaper,” Dodd said. “Hopefully, it has also proven valuable for the interns, who get to experience journalism first-hand instead of just from a book. There is no better way to learn than through experience.”
The internship was started in honor of the Vickery family, longtime owners of the newspaper.
Wisdom is the daughter of Bryan and Melanie Wisdom. She intends to attend Missouri State University in Springfield to obtain a degree in Animal Science.
At SHS, she is part of FFA, NHS, and manages for the baseball and girls’ basketball teams. Her other interests include livestock photography and showing livestock across Missouri.
“I am excited to work alongside Olivia. She is a maturing photographer and I look forward to seeing her artistic side grow in this field,” said managing editor Catherine Wynn.
Previous Vickery interns include Heather Schaller, Dina Williams, Jonathan Bertz, Drew Carmier, Lindsey Gott, Rachel Greene, Janeen Hankinson, Katie Hunt, Seth Gott, Rebecca Soard, Liz Snyder, Rachelle Hayes, Emily Moser, Tucker Conley, Alexis Crocker, Emily Brown, Carson Mowery, Cory Gamblin, Anita Conway, Malia Terrill, Brecklyn Holtz, and Denise Stoner.
Duties of the intern include photography, writing and editing news stories, a weekly column and compiling the calendar section of the newspaper, along with some website work.
