NEWS
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. [...]
Q&A: Logan Bogert, Greene County Record
This week we talked with Logan Bogert, who works as both a reporter and administrative coordinator at the Greene County Record in Stanardsville. Logan, who graduated from VCU last May, [...]
Notice of Special Virginia Press Association Meeting
Notice of Special Virginia Press Association Meeting The Board of Directors of the Virginia Press Association has called a special meeting of the association to be held on Thursday, May [...]
Member News (5/2/19): A paper celebrates 50 years of publishing, Report For America
News Leader reporter leaving to join Report For America Julia Fair, a reporter for the Staunton News Leader, is leaving the paper because she has been selected to be a [...]
Q&A: Wayne Epps, Jr., Richmond Times-Dispatch
This week we talked with Wayne Epps, Jr. from the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Epps’s beat at RTD is athletics at Virginia Commonwealth University, but he also lends his hand to covering [...]