Month: February 2014

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…]

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…]

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

And get our latest content in your inbox

Invalid email address