The Virginia is for Journalists Relief Fund took shape at the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than three years later, it wants no more money. But the fund still has $6,300 to distribute.
The Virginia Press Association this year awarded no top prize for editorial writing because there weren't enough entries. This has never happened before.
John 'Kimball' Payne, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Virginia investment banker, died Feb. 25 from sarcoma at his Virginia Beach home. He was 44.
The struggling newspaper industry is backing proposed legislation that would force Big Tech to pay local publishers to aggregate their news stories online.