About Alison Karpenko

Alison Karpenko's avatar image BOGGS, ALISON is the North Idaho general assignments reporter for The Spokesman-Review, a 75,000-circulation newspaper covering Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Her job can include anything from breaking news to business features but she prefers to work on in-depth human-interest stories about ordinary people overcoming extraordinary challenges. Boggs is a native of upstate New York and graduated from Tufts University in Medford, MA, then completed her master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri. She has been a reporter and editor for The Spokesman-Review for 17 years. Boggs is an avid skier, distance runner, mountain biker and whitewater rafter. In the past 10 years she has made three, three-week long, rafting trips on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon and she has another trip planned for April.

December 2011 Digital Storytelling Workshop Project:

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  • Projects

    • Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative
    • During our six-day workshop, fellows produce videos that spotlight local businesses in the UC Berkeley area. This video was produced as a part of the Knight Digital Media Center's December ...

    • Testimonials

    "This workshop was extremely valuable to me. In one week, I feel like I have begun to acquire the skills I will need to expand my journalistic storytelling abilities. I had fallen behind in acquiring new digital storytelling skills and now feel like I am on the road to becoming more proficient with them. It was an amazing week-long, hands-on training for a mid-career print reporter. In particular, completing my first video after two days of struggling and feeling frustrating was an amazing, energizing feeling. That is one of the biggest strengths of this workshop -- you pushed me to keep working and to stick with it until I saw that I could do it."