NEWS
Q&A: Aimee Atteberry, C-Ville Weekly & VPA Board Member
This week we had the pleasure of talking with VPA's newest board member, Aimee Atteberry, publisher of C-VILLE Weekly. Atteberry talks to us about how she got started with newspapers, [...]
Member News (6/27/19): A partnership in Charlottesville ends; a never-before-seen photo discovered and more
C-Ville Tomorrow ends partnership with Daily Progress Charlottesville Tomorrow, a hyperlocal nonprofit news website, has ended a nine-year publishing partnership with the Daily Progress that allowed the work of the [...]
Q&A: David Gravely, The Southwest Times
This week's Q&A is with editor of the Southwest Times in Pulaski County, David Gravely. David tells us how an accident transformed his life and, in some ways, got him [...]
Member News (6/20/19): Pilot building to be sold, a former Daily Press editor dies, new faces, new digital offers and more
Virginian-Pilot building to be sold The historic building in downtown Norfolk that has been the home of the Virginian-Pilot for the last 82 years will be put on the market [...]
Notice: New Newspapers of Record Law Becomes Effective July 1, 2019
NEW NEWSPAPERS of RECORD LAW Becomes Effective July 1, 2019 VPA Publishers and Advertising Managers, We want to make you aware that SB1638 will become law on July 1, 2019. [...]
Q&A: John Rose, Daily News-Record
We’ve got a first in our Q&A series this week—a cartoonist! We talked with John Rose from the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg. Rose talks to us about how he got [...]
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 [...]