Reporting intern joins newspaper

HARTINGTON — Emma Folkers is serving as a summer intern with the Randolph Times / Northeast Nebraska News Company.

Folkers, the daughter of Nick and Ann Folkers of Hartington, is a senior at Wayne State College majoring in journalism and minoring in editing and publishing.

She has been a photographer and news reporter for the Wayne Stater covering campus news and currently serves as its news editor, where she proofs stories and designs pages.

A native of Bow Valley, Emma graduated from Wynot High School in 2018 at the top of her class.

She has always been an avid reader and was involved as a writer for the Wynot Whisper for three years before becoming its editor in her final year of high school.

Emma is passionate about communication and community journalism.

Cedar County News Co-Publisher Kellyn Dump said he is excited to have Folkers on board.

“She is already a great addition to our staff,” Dump said. “Her reporting, editing and layout skills have been a real asset.”

Besides helping to edit and lay out the paper each week, Folkers will also be covering meetings, taking photos and doing feature stories for all four of the Northeast Nebraska News Company newspapers and websites.