NEWS
Member News (6/6/19): Two SWVA weeklies merge, a new Richmond Magazine editor and a new website for the Roanoke Times
Two SWVA papers merge Two papers owned by BH Media in Southwest Virginia have merged. Jim Maxwell, publisher of the Bristol Herald Courier and regional publisher for several other weekly [...]
Q&A: Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times
This week we talked with Roanoke Times photojournalist and triathlete, Heather Rousseau. Rousseau talks with us about how she first got interested in photography, what photojournalism gives her on a [...]
Member News (5/30/19): Newspaper rack robots, comings and goings
Smyth County News & Messenger donates newspaper rack to local school The Smyth County News & Messenger helped build a robot--a robot that will help students in rural southwest Virginia [...]
Q&A: Stephanie Porter-Nichols, Smyth County News & Messenger
Stephanie Porter-Nichols, editor at the Smyth County News & Messenger in Marion, is our Q&A this week. Nichols talks to us about her love affair with community journalism and how [...]
Member News (5/23/19): WaPo publisher warns against ‘campaign against the truth’; Henrico editor wins awards
Washington Post publisher delivers commencement speech, warns against a 'campaign against the truth' Fred Ryan, the publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, delivered a commencement address Monday to graduates [...]
Q&A: John McCaslin, Rappahannock News
John McCaslin (left) stands with Rappahannock County native Lillian Aylor, in front of the African American school Lillian attended during segregation. McCaslin wrote last week about how Lillian is [...]
Member News (5/16/19): A paper goes from daily to twice weekly, Virginia Business has a new editor and the Daily Progress gets a new website
Southwest Times goes from daily to weekly The Southwest Times, Pulaski County's 112-year-old daily newspaper, has stopped publishing daily and will now publish twice-weekly on Wednesdays and Sundays. The change [...]
Q&A: Lisa Vernon Sparks, Daily Press
This week we had the pleasure of talking with Daily Press reporter Lisa Vernon Sparks. Vernon Sparks discusses the importance of telling good stories as a counter narrative to inherently negative [...]
Special Meeting Reminder & Agenda
REMINDER & AGENDA Special Virginia Press Association Meeting Tomorrow, May 16 at 11 a.m. The Board of Directors of the Virginia Press Association has called a special meeting of the [...]
Member News (5/9/19): A departure, an anniversary and Dow Jones interns
Daily Press education reporter departs Jane Hammond, the Daily Press's education reporter for the past three-and-a-half years, has left the paper to take a communications job at Christopher Newport University. [...]