Newspapers interesting in hosting an intern should contact the WVPA CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There is still one week for students to submit applications for the West Virginia Press Association Foundation’s 2018 Summer Internships and 2018-19 Scholarships. If internships are awarded, the WVPAF provides both paid and unpaid internships at newspapers across[Read More…]
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Final Week: WVPA Foundation accepting scholarship and summer Internship applications for 2018-19
Newspapers interesting in hosting an intern should contact the WVPA CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There is still one week for students to submit applications for the West Virginia Press Association Foundation’s 2018 Summer Internships and 2018-19 Scholarships. If internships are awarded, the WVPAF provides both paid and unpaid internships at newspapers across[Read More…]
Jarrid McCormick joins WDN as sports reporter
Staff report Williamson Daily News WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Jarrid McCormick, a lifelong Williamson resident and a 2010 graduate of Williamson High School, has joined HD Media as a sports reporter for the Williamson Daily News. While at WHS, Jarrid played four years of basketball and baseball, three years of golf[Read More…]
Readers have 30 days of free access to The Dominion Post’s new website and mobile app
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Dominion Post is excited to let readers know about a new website and mobile app for dominionpost.com. “We have been working on this new look for several months now and are excited …,” said Managing Editor Pam Queen. “We’ve wanted to clean up the look of[Read More…]
Media Alert: Newspaper conference call on tourism set for Wednesday at 1 p.m.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Press Association has arranged a newspaper industry conference call with W.Va. Tourism Commissioner Chelsea Ruby for 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, to discussion and answer questions on tourism plans. The WVPA will host the call. Information on participation has been emailed to each editor. If[Read More…]
WVPA stalwart Ed ‘Chad’ Chadwick dead at 83
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Edward Francis ‘Chad’ Chadwick, who was a leader in the West Virginia newspaper industry and the West Virginia Press Association for decades, passed away on April 6 at home surrounded by his family. Chadwick, 83, was an active member of the WV Press Association, serving numerous roles including[Read More…]
HD Media closes purchase of Charleston Gazette-Mail
By LACIE PIERSON Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — HD Media and Charleston Newspapers closed the sale of the Charleston Gazette-Mail Friday afternoon, a few hours after a federal bankruptcy judge ruled the former owners of the Charleston Daily Mail wouldn’t receive a cut of the proceeds from the $11.487 million[Read More…]
Majority of Gazette-Mail employees to keep jobs in HD Media purchase
By LACIE PIERSON Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The majority of Charleston Gazette-Mail employees will keep their jobs amid HD Media’s purchase of the newspaper, employees learned Monday. A total of 168 people received employment offers from HD Media Monday, according to Jim Heady, who will become the publisher of West[Read More…]
New Diesel Trio appearing at the 2018 Jackson’s Mill, W.Va., Jubilee
Release from Jackson’s Mill Jubilee: WESTON, W.Va. — The New Diesel Trio, a popular folk/blues group headquartered in Fairmont, is the first of a long lineup of entertainers to confirm they will be appearing at the 2018 Jackson’s Mill Jubilee. The group made their first appearace at the 2017 Jubilee and liked[Read More…]
Printers, publishers unite to launch national coalition to stop newsprint tariffs
ARLINGTON, Va. – Members of the printing, publishing and paper-producing industries, which employ more than 600,000 workers, are announcing the formation of Stop Tariffs on Printers & Publishers (STOPP), a coalition to fight proposed countervailing duties (CVD) and anti-dumping duties (AD) on imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood papers including newsprint and other[Read More…]
