Who we are

Bryan-Campos is an assistant professor in the  Robertson School  of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Tyree  is the senior director and co-founder of the  Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO.

South, a former newspaper editor and reporter who taught journalism at VCU, was president of SPJVA from 2019 to 2021.

Meredith  is communications manager for the  Virginia Press Association and an award-winning writer and photographer.

Nicholson is a professor emeritus of journalism at VCU and a longtime SPJ leader at the state and national levels.

Hutchins, editor of The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, also is on the board of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government.

Adams is the Roanoke Valley reporter for WVTF/Radio IQ, host of Inside Appalachia and a freelance journalist.

LoMonaco, managing editor, Fredericksburg Free Press. He  previously worked  at The Free Lance-Star, where he won multiple awards.

Deggans,  Knight Professor  at Washington and Lee University. He is a  critic-at-large at NPR and serves on the Poynter Institute’s National Advisory Board.