Hello – I’m Victoria Petersen, a journalist in Anchorage, Alaska.

From July until December 2020, I will be interning remotely with High Country News.

I worked as a content producer on the digital team for KTVA, a broadcast news station in Anchorage, until they were sold to Gray Media in August 2020.

I am the founder and editor-in-chief of The Spenardian, an award-winning hyperlocal news source for Anchorage’s Spenard neighborhood. 

From 2018-2020 I was a local government and education reporter at the Peninsula Clarion, a regional newspaper on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula.

At the beginning of 2019, I was selected to be the year’s Education Week Gregory M. Chronister Journalism Fellow. The fellowship offered funding and support for a reporting project, called Letters From Alaska, which is focused on education in rural Alaska.

Before moving to Kenai in 2018, I was the copy editor and a columnist at the University of Alaska Anchorage student newspaper, The Northern Light. I also worked as an intern for Alaska Public Media and Alaska Dispatch News (now Anchorage Daily News).