Summer intern joins Gazette

COLFAX — A Potlatch, Idaho, man has joined the Whitman County Gazette as a summer reporter intern.

Reid Thompson, 20, began his internship Monday, June 13.

He is a junior studying journalism and international relations at Syracuse University in New York.

Over the summer Thompson will be reporting on local affairs and creating a rural Whitman County visitors guide.

Thompson graduated from Potlatch High School in 2020 and hopes to apply his local knowledge of the Palouse to his new position.

At his university, Thompson is involved in several campus newspapers and has worked with media outlets as...