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SpokaneFāVS is pleased to announce it has begun a collaboration with Spokane Public Radio‘s Inland Journal public affairs program, hosted by Doug Nadvornick. FāVS will assist in the shows religion coverage.

In its first program together, which aired Feb. 28, FāVS editor Tracy Simmons interviewed Ask An Evangelical author Scott McIntyre about President Trump’s border wall. McIntyre wrote a column on the subject in January.

Listen to the entire Feb. 28 Inland Journal episode here, or tune in to the FāVS portion of the show below.

Inland Journal: Ask An Evangelical
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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