From staff reports Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — You may have noticed something a little different about your newspaper today. Well, that’s because there is. Ten years after its last makeover, the Charleston Daily Mail has freshened up its look. Most of the changes are subtle, with the addition[Read More…]
Month: February 2014
Rockefeller to receive prestigious Japanese award
By Paul J. Nyden Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Jay Rockefeller traces the close relationship he helped West Virginia develop with Japan to three years when he lived in a “wood and paper house in the middle of a rice field with four Japanese students.” Rockefeller took a break[Read More…]
Do we undervalue our editors and copy desk staff?
A blog by Don Smith, WVPA Executive Director: Posted on Feb. 9, 2014. With newspapers competing for audience share in today’s 24-hour cycle, in newsrooms around the state, our editors and copy desk staffers are being challenged to maintain our journalist standards on multiple platforms: print editions, online editions and[Read More…]
Multiple factors reduce WVU basketball attendance
A column by Bob Hertzel for The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It is, perhaps, time to have a frank conversation about West Virginia’s conversion from an East Coast team to a Midwestern or even southwestern entity on the American sports scene. To date, it isn’t working — on the[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Monday, Feb. 10
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers. 1. AP FINDS MILITARY’S HANDLING OF SEX-ABUSE CASES VERGES[Read More…]
Gallery: Newspaper photographers provide visions of winter
A blog by Don Smith, WVPA Executive Director: Posted on Feb. 8, 2014. Picture a cold, miserable winter with lots of snow, ice, freezing pipes and dangerous roads. You can almost see the people, bundled up in the bulky winter coats, hats and gloves with steamy breath escaping as they[Read More…]
Leave chemical monitoring up to the states
An editorial from The Intelligencer Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — By definition, both the state of West Virginia and the federal government failed about 300,000 Mountain State residents badly last month. Most of them probably assumed government at some level was ensuring hazardous chemicals stored near water supplies was being[Read More…]
Three more Kanawha schools close over water
By Shay Maunz and Marcus Constantino Charleston Daily Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Three schools in Charleston closed early Thursday after chemical odors were detected in the schools’ tap water. Overbrook Elementary in South Hills closed at noon. West Side schools Watts Elementary and J.E. Robins Elementary dismissed at 11:30[Read More…]
Here’s hoping Olympics serve to unify the world
An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — It’s hard not to feel a little uneasy about the Winter Olympics which are being held in Sochi, Russia. The venues are only a couple hundred miles from Chechnya, which has fought two wars against Russia in the last 20 years.[Read More…]
Wood County airport braces for United cutback in Cleveland
By Jolene Craig Parkersburg News and Sentinel WILLIAMSTOWN, W.Va. – The impact of the loss of the Cleveland airport as a hub for United Airlines continues to baffle the manager of the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. “We are still flying to Cleveland now, but I have no idea where we[Read More…]