Notice of Virginia Press Association Annual Meeting   The Virginia Press Association Board of Directors will hold its annual meeting on Friday, June 4, 2021 at 10 a.m. Due to COVID-19 social distancing requirements, the meeting will be held by video/conference call. The video/conference call information will be sent out to everyone a day or two before the meeting. Read more...

June 9, 2021 – 2 p.m. (FREE) Reports of hate crimes have surged nationally, with targeted violence against Asian-Americans, Jewish Americans, and Black Americans all dominating national headlines. Journalists need to understand what is behind the increased violence, and what the trends are in hate crime attacks, which have historically been significantly under-reported. Seeking to remedy that problem, Congress last Read more...

So many newspaper designers learned software basics on their own, missing many of the tools available to increase revenue and design better pages and ads. Kevin Slimp was working in InDesign before it even had a name, and he taught a large group of newspaper designers to use the application the week it was first released. In this fast-paced session, Read more...

The 2021 General Assembly passed HB 2004 to require some level of access to inactive criminal investigative files. Until now, inactive files were treated the same as active case files: law enforcement and prosecutors could withhold any and all files forever. This workshop will go over what the new law does and doesn’t do, how it differs from the rest Read more...

Adam Marton, University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, will demonstrate the power of data visualization using free, interactive tools. It is helpful for participants to have taken “Unlocking Data with Google Sheets” June 8, but not required. This free webinar is hosted by the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association. Register Here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpc-6qrz8sHtezYiFAwfYXPeMVPTx-2R2i Read more...

Karen Rundlet (director of the Journalism Program at the Knight Foundation) will lead a roundtable conversation among representatives of nonprofit journalism organizations across the country, discussing their various missions and the challenges and goals they face in reporting and delivering the news in 21st century America. The free online event, hosted by Virginia Humanities in partnership with the Federation of Read more...

Increasingly, we are now seeing publishers of free newspapers showing interest in generating reader revenue with paywalls. Two publishers took that innovative leap, despite concerns on how it would be received by their readers, achieving impressive results! In this “E&P REPORTS” Sponsored Webinar, E&P Publisher Mike Blinder will explore how these two free community papers put up paywalls while still delivering a Read more...

As part of the MDDC Press Association’s Into the Newsroom series, Andy West of the Delaware State News, Tom Linthicum of MDDC and DCF mentor Larry Nagengast discuss the right questions to ask and the right ways to ask them. FREE – Register Here Read more...

Writers and journalists are facing unprecedented levels of harassment online, from threats, hateful slurs, and sexual harassment to coordinated cyber mobs. Whether you’ve been targeted by online abuse or witnessed it, this session will equip you with practical tools and strategies to defend yourself. We’ll talk about how to prepare, respond, take care of yourself, and support others. While there Read more...

The nonsubscriber rules in the Domestic Mail Manual are there to allow you to promote your newspaper to nonsubscribers and grow and maintain your mail delivery, but too many papers fail to use this tactic. You need to provide your advertisers and potential advertisers with more reasons to spend their dollars. A regular sampling program increases your distribution and your Read more...