by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 15, 2023 | Business, Education, Health, Politics
local news logo Local news – arguably as important to democracy as utilities are to everyday life – is imperiled. The erosion of the advertising-based business model for local newspapers – still the primary source for local news – means there are far fewer journalists...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Politics
Lifelong newspaperman Carlos Santos was once part of a three-person Richmond Times-Dispatch bureau in Charlottesville, one of several outposts across the Commonwealth for Virginia’s second-largest daily. Laid off in 2009 along with dozens of other reporters as the...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Politics
When the Christmas parade float bearing grand marshal Billy Coleburn, longtime mayor of Blackstone, Va., rolled through the small Southside town, he hopped down and began snapping photos of the colorful marching bands, cheerleaders, elves, beaming bystanders and a...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Health, Politics
local news logo If you go out to the coffee shop in Monterey, Va., with The Recorder publisherAnne Adams, don’t expect to eat quickly. “It’s very difficult to get through lunch,” said Betsy Edwards, executive director of the Virginia Press Association. “Every single...
by Foothills Forum Staff Report | Apr 13, 2023 | Business, Education, Health, Politics
local news logo Claudia A. Whitworth was 18 in 1945 when she began working with her father on the Roanoke Tribune, the African-American weekly he founded shortly before World War II. In its columns, the Rev. F.E. Alexander – Baptist minister, journalist and printer –...
