NEWS
Member News (2/21/19): Rocktown Weekly to shutter; Pilot reporter wins national award for police reporting; Daily Progress to launch two new newsletter
Rocktown Weekly to cease publication March 1 Rocktown Weekly, Harrisonburg's weekly alternative newspaper, will cease publication after its March 1 issue. Rocktown was previously owned by the Byrd family but [...]
Q&A: Sandra Sellars, Richmond Free Press
This week we talked with Sandra Sellars, senior photographer for the Richmond Free Press. Sellars talks to us about how she’s been a photographer for most of her life, the [...]
Changing Directions: VPA Executive Director Column
By Betsy Edwards Executive Director, Virginia Press Association We’ve all heard, “the only thing that is constant is change.” Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher said this around 500 B.C. I’m [...]
Meet VPA’s 2019 Breakfast Keynote Speaker: Everdeen Mason from The Washington Post
"What is the future of digital storytelling?" Everdeen Mason will bring her perspective as the Washington Post's digital audience editor to discuss one of the biggest subjects in journalism: DIGITAL STORYTELLING [...]
VPA/VPS President’s Column: A look back, a look ahead and a message from newspapersin Virginia: ‘We’re here to stay’
Weddle By Steve Weddle VPA/VPS Board President As we move into 2019, it’s helpful to take a look back at what we’ve done recently. Thefall was a busy [...]
Member News (2/14/19): Cartoon controversy; accolades and more
RTD reporter named multimedia photographer of the year Shelby Lum, a photographer and multimedia reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, was named Multimedia Photographer for 2019 by the National Press Photographers [...]
Q&A: Gordon Rago, The Virginian-Pilot
This week we talked with digital enterprise reporter for the Virginain-Pilot Gordon Rago. Rago also happens to be the newspaper reporter to first confirm the authenticity of the now infamous [...]
Member News (2/7/19): Pilot reproter confirms Northam photo; RTD launches a new newsletter; WaPo airs Super Bowl ad
Pilot reporter one of the first to confirm Gov. Northam's 1984 yearbook photo Gordon Rago, an enterprise and digital reporter for the Virginian-Pilot, was one of the first reporters to confirm [...]
Former VPA President Robbie Tate has died
Former newspaper owner and publisher Robbie Goode Tate, 85, died Tuesday, leaving behind a legacy of professional and community service. Tate had lived in Colonial Heights, Tenn., for about 20 [...]
Q&A: Monique Calello, News-Leader
This week we talked with Monique Calello, the health reporter for the Staunton News Leader. Calello talks to us about the difficulty, but necessity, of reporting stories that are hard [...]