Mizzou journalism student interns at the Southeast Missourian

Michelle Felter, a senior at the University of Missouri in Columbia, will begin an internship at the Southeast Missourian on Thursday to experience how a non-metropolitan newspaper operates.

A graduate of Thomas Kelly High School in Benton, Felter is majoring in news-editorial journalism with a minor in political science.

Felter and other students from the University of Missouri School of Journalism are visiting community newspapers across the state and nations as part of a community journalism class.

At Mizzou, Felter works as a teaching assistant in the production area of the Columbia Missourian, a daily morning newspaper in Columbia, and is the editor of MiniMo, the Missourian's weekly Newspapers in Education supplement. She is also a journalism ambassador from the school, and has spent the past three summers interning at the Standard Democrat newspaper in Sikeston, Mo. Felter plans to graduate with honors in May.