Hello, My name is Victoria Petersen

Victoria Petersen is a journalist living in Alaska. She currently works as a content producer on the digital team for KTVA, a broadcast news station in Anchorage. From July until December, she will be interning remotely with High Country News.

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

At the beginning of 2019, Petersen was selected to be the year’s Education Week Gregory M. Chronister Journalism Fellow. The fellowship offers 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, she was the copy editor and a columnist at the University of Alaska Anchorage student newspaper, The Northern Light . She also worked as an intern for Alaska Public Media and Alaska Dispatch News (now Anchorage Daily News).

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

Her work has been featured in The Northern Light, Show Me Alaska, Anchorage Press, The Frontiersman, Knik.co, Juliaomalley.media, Last Frontier Magazine, Great British Chefs, First We Feast, Alaska Dispatch News, Edible Alaska Magazine, Cruise Critic, Crude Magazine, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Public Media, Mt. View Post, Eaten Magazine, Education Week, Wildheart Magazine, Associated Press, Homer News, Juneau Empire, 49 Writers and the Peninsula Clarion. 

 

In 2019, The Spenardian took home a third place award in the External Publications category at the Public Relations Society of America-Alaska Chapter Aurora Awards.

For 2019, Petersen received three Alaska Press Club awards.

•  First place in Education Reporting – for a story about teacher retention published in the Peninsula Clarion and Education Week
•  Third place in Best Reporting on Government and Politics for a story regarding a Satanist invocation during a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting.
•  First place for Best Blog – The Spenardian
•  First place for Best Overall Magazine – The Spenardian issue 5
• Third place for Best Magazine Cover – The Spenardian issue 6

For 2018, Petersen received three Alaska Press Club awards.

• Third place in the Best Reporting on Government and Politics Category – for a story regarding the Kenai Peninsula Borough invocation policy
• Third place in the Best Blog category – for The Spenardian
• Third place for the Best Magazine Cover category – for The Spenardian, issue 3

For 2017, Petersen received three Alaska Press Club awards.

• First place in the Vern McCorkle Award for Best Business Reporting – for a story she wrote about Alaska-made lingerie.
• Third place in the Suzan Nightingale Award for Best Columnist – for her cooking column at UAA’s student newspaper.
• First place in the Best Blog category – for her blog The Spenardian.

For 2016, Petersen was the recipient of an Alaska Press Club award for third place in the general news category for her work in 2016 on an indoor hydroponic farm in Spenard. 

Contact: victoriagpetersen@gmail.com, thespenardian@gmail.com or vpetersen@ktva.com