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SPJVA donates to Sierra Jenkins Scholarship Fund

In an email vote, the board of directors of the SPJ Virginia Pro Chapter agreed to donate $150 to the scholarship fund established in the memory of Sierra Jenkins, a Virginian-Pilot reporter who was fatally shot in Norfolk on March 19. The board also urged SPJVA members and supporters to consider contributing to the fund.

Help Nominate 2022 George Mason Awardee

The Society of Professional Journalists, Virginia Pro Chapter, seeks nominations for its 56th George Mason Award, tentatively scheduled to be presented in early December 2022. The annual award has only one stated criterion: It recognizes a person who “has made outstanding contributions to Virginia journalism.”

2021-2022 annual report recaps a year of distinctive programming

We’re proud of the programming presented in the past year recapped from our annual report. June 8, 2022 – Publicized and added SPJ VA’s name as a co-sponsor to the first of two events on journalism organized by the Virginia Humanities on the critical role of local journalism to a democracy. https://spjva.com/2021/06/09/the-future-of-journalism-the-fate-of-democracy-part1/June 17, 2022 -ContinueContinue reading ” 2021-2022 annual report recaps a year of distinctive programming”

Videos from SPJ Region 2 Spring Conference

Thanks to Virginia Tech Professor Robin Reed, Radford University Professor Bill Kovarik and their students, we have videos of most of the programming at the SPJ Region 2 Spring Conference that was held on April 9 at the Holiday Inn Valley View in Roanoke.

Beth Macy receives 2021 George Mason Award

The SPJ Virginia Pro Chapter presented the 2021 George Mason Award to Beth Macy, the former Roanoke Times journalist who has written Dopesick and other best-sellers, on April 9 at the O. Winston Link & History Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke.