NEWS
Member News (11/8/18): Longtime Free Lance-Star owner and publisher dies; a Daily Press reporter makes a return back; a scholarship for a fallen colleague and more
Former Free Lance-Star publisher, owner, past VPA president dies Josiah Pollard Rowe III, who served as the longtime owner and publisher of the Free Lance-Star and who served two terms [...]
Q&A: Nathaniel Cline, Loudoun Times-Mirror
This week we had the pleasure of talking with Nathaniel Cline, a new(ish) reporter for Loudoun Times-Mirror in Leesburg. Nathaniel talks to us about coming back into news after a [...]
Fauquier Now helps establish new local journalism incubator
Fauquier County is big. It’s 650 square miles--about the distance from central Virginia to Florida. And with that size come problems, especially in news coverage. Add in recent industry trends [...]
Lieutenant Gov. Fairfax to serve as keynote for VPA Day in the Capital; registration now open
Justin Fairfax, Virginia's Lieutenant Governor, will serve as the luncheon keynote speaker for VPA Day in the Capital 2018. VPA Day will take place on Thursday, December 6 at VPA [...]
Member News (11/1/18): VPA adds a new members, a longtime Va. journalist dies, a Pilot investigations gets results and more
VPA board votes in a new member publication The Virginia Press Association has a new member. At the VPA board meeting last week, a vote was passed by VPA leadership [...]
Q&A: Jeff Lester, Coalfield Progress, The Post
This week we talked with news editor at the Coalfield Progress and The Post (Big Stone Gap), Jeff Lester. Jeff tells us how he got started 29 years ago at [...]
Member News (10/25/18): RTD to stop endorsing candidates; a Pilot reporter passes away and a judge rules to exclude Virginia’s judiciary from FOIA
RTD announces it will stop endorsing political candidates In a shift away from a long-time newspaper tradition, Tom Silvestri, publisher and president of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, announced in a column [...]
VPF gives $5k grant to Capital News Service to help expand legislative coverage
The Virginia Press Foundation board voted last month to provide a $5,000 grant to Virginia Commonwealth University’s Capital News Service to help the program expand, ensuring that more local coverage [...]
Q&A: Matt McClain, The Washington Post
Matt McClain, staff photographer with The Washington Post, is seen in a photo on Wednesday December 28, 2016 in Alexandria, Va. Photo by Matt McClain | The Washington Post [...]
Member News (10/18/2018): VPA members win SNPA awards, Daily Press, Va. Gazette host journalists from Ukraine and more
VPA papers win several awards from SNPA VPA members had a strong showing in this year's Southern Newspaper Publisher Association's contest, winning major awards in leadership and commentary, as well [...]