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June 21, 2022
This week we talked with Zoe Collins Rath, who joined The Progress-Index in Petersburg last year to cover the sports and education beats. While there, she has also been able to perform some investigative journalism. Rath won a first-place award in the 2021 VPA News & Advertising Contest for her...
June 17, 2022
Sarah Vogelsong, an award-winning energy and environment reporter, has been named the next editor-in-chief of the Virginia Mercury, a nonprofit news outlet in Richmond covering Virginia government, politics and policy. Robert Zullo, who oversaw the site’s launch in 2018, is leaving the helm at the end of the summer for...
June 17, 2022
The Richmond Free Press has named Bonnie Newman Davis managing editor following the resignation of Bonnie Winston, who served in that capacity for seven years. Davis began her new role with the Free Press on May 16, according to the newspaper’s publisher Jean Patterson Boone. Davis is a seasoned journalist...