By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. For a second consecutive year, West Virginia lawmakers are targeting Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s use of lawsuit settlement funds. On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee advanced a measure (House Bill 4009) that aims to ensure the Legislature gets to spend settlement money as[Read More…]
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Sunken towboat leaking oil in Big Sandy River on West Virginia-Kentucky border
Staff report The Herald-Dispatch KENOVA, W.Va. — A West Virginia National Guard team has joined the response to an oil spill from a sunken towboat in the Big Sandy River just south of Kenova, on the West Virginia-Kentucky border. The Guard’s 35th Civil Support Team is providing personnel for environmental sampling[Read More…]
WVU Reed College of Media among the best in MediaShift rankings
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University Reed College of Media has topped two different “best of” lists for innovation. MediaShift, the premier destination for insight and analysis at the intersection of media and technology, recently announced its top picks for media innovation in several areas. Dean Maryanne[Read More…]
Report for America Initiative aims to strengthen local journalism
By PENELOPE De La CRUZ The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A new national initiative aims to strengthen local journalism. On Jan. 9, the Reed College of Media hosted a panel at the Media Innovation Center to explain the mission of the new national initiative Report for America, which is part[Read More…]
$151M water crisis settlement moves closer to final court approval
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Four years to the day after the Freedom Industries chemical spill, a landmark $151 million class-action settlement over the regional water crisis that followed the spill moved one step closer to final court approval during a hearing Tuesday morning in Charleston.[Read More…]
Mountain Media continues expansion in West Virginia
Mountain Messenger LEWISBURG, W.Va. — 21Mountain Media LLC, a Lewisburg-based community newspaper company, has purchased the assets of Calhoun Publishing Inc., which includes the Calhoun Chronicle and Grantsville News community weekly newspaper. Mountain Media LLC, based in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, publishes community weekly newspapers, their affiliated publications and[Read More…]
W.Va. journalist Paul Nyden remembered as crusading reporter, loyal friend and mentor, great storyteller
By Ken Ward Jr. The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Paul J. Nyden, a longtime Charleston Gazette investigative reporter who detailed coal industry abuses and government corruption, died Saturday after a short illness. He was 72. Nyden defended the public’s interests by consistently taking on powerful state businesses and challenging[Read More…]
Legislative Lookahead: W.Va. Legislature likely to address teacher seniority issue during 2018 session
By Ryan Quinn The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House Education Committee’s vice chairman expects a bill that would remove the statewide mandate that public school teachers with the least amount of seniority automatically lose their positions when job cuts are made in a particular teaching area[Read More…]
W.Va. newspapers’ coverage to be featured in new WVPA Insight video program
From the West Virginia Press Association: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As the West Virginia Legislature prepares for its 2018 regular session, the state’s newspaper industry is preparing its extensive coverage plans, including a new 30-minute weekly video program. “West Virginia Press Insight” will offer viewers a look at legislative and news coverage from community[Read More…]
Natural gas storage hub in Appalachia clears hurdle
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A hurdle has been cleared in the development of an underground natural gas liquids storage hub that industry representatives said could create thousands of jobs and encourage billions of dollars of development in Appalachia. Appalachia Development Group LLC of[Read More…]
