NEWS
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 [...]
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 [...]