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University of Richmond Student Wins Scholarship

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Kayla Solsbak, a sophomore at the University of Richmond, is the recipient of the Virginia Press Women Foundation’s 2016 Agnes Cooke Scholarship. She was announced as this year’s scholarship winner at the annual conference of Virginia Professional Communicators, with which the foundation is affiliated, at the George Washington Inn in Winchester, Virginia, on Friday,...

Thoughts About Soccer, Independence and Equality

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By Sue Brinkerhoff Bland Last night, I watched one of the most amazing soccer tournaments ever played. Today, I read our local sports pages with the hope of reliving some of the fantastic moments I witnessed in the U.S. v Japan Women’s World Cup Soccer event. Ironically, our American women competed and won the world title the day after Independence Day. We...

VPC Strategic Planning Retreat: Into the Woods During a Snowy Spring Weekend

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Gail Kent, President: I was so excited and expectant in planning VPC’s first strategic planning retreat, not exactly sure would come from the experience, but feeling that if we made a space for magic, it might just happen, and it did. Members of the board spent a weekend in March examining our organization to determine what is working, what is not and how we...

Fire and Ice: A Really Cool Christmas

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By Martha Steger At Iceland’s Blue Lagoon this past September the geothermal pool’s green-blue, misty warmth enveloped me. Soothed, I looked out over permafrost in the distance and pondered the erupting Bardarbunga volcano far away in central Iceland — venting lava and fumes in earnest for a month. As neat as the exotic locale was, I decided it didn’t have...

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By Martha Steger Journalism groups as well as other organizations were quick to jump on the “Je Sui Charlie” bandwagon after the Charlie Hebdo tragedy. When I received a mass-distributed NFPW email seeking signatures for a freedom-of-speech (including freedom from self-censoring) message, I immediately thought of  NFPW members (including a lot of us in VPC) who...

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By Jennifer M. Drummond I originally didn’t plan to attend the 2014 National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Conference in Greenville, SC. Since I received a scholarship (so thankful!) and it was close enough for me to drive from Richmond, I put aside my fears and committed to the event. As if the scholarship was not enough, NFPW gave me a mentor for the...