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>Presbyterian News Service gets new reporter

Lifelong Presbyterian Bethany Furkin starts Feb. 2

>by Presbyterian News Service

LOUISVILLE ― Bethany R. Furkin, a recent honors graduate of
the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University,
has been named a reporter for the Presbyterian News
Service. She begins work Feb. 2.

Furkin, a lifelong member of Springdale Presbyterian Church
here, joins PNS coordinator Jerry Van Marter on the PNS
staff, which was reduced to one person by the resignation
of Toya Richards Hill last May and the sudden death of Evan
Silverstein on Jan. 9.

"Bethany Furkin has everything we've looked for in a
reporter," Van Marter said. "She's a cradle Presbyterian so
she knows the church well. She has won awards for her
reporting and editing everywhere she's worked and brings
youthful enthusiasm to a job that will greatly benefit from
it."

Furkin won numerous scholarships and awards while at Ohio
University. The Society of Professional Journalists named
her school paper, The Post, the best college newspaper in
Ohio during the time she served as assistant managing
editor.

Following her 2008 graduation, Furkin served as a reporting
intern last summer for the Chautauquan Daily, the newspaper
of the renowned Chautauqua Institution in New York. Since
October, she has been serving as a free-lance reporter for
Louisville's Business First weekly newspaper.

For PNS, Furkin will be doing general assignment reporting
and news features on the mission and ministry of
Presbyterians throughout the denomination.

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