Registration is open for the VPC 2018 Spring Conference. This year’s conference will feature speakers on a wide range of topics relevant to communications professionals, including: Fake News and Real Journalism with Tom Mullen, Director of Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Richmond Tom Mullen will discuss the fake news phenomenon, and how it...
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Washington Post Event Releases Gallup/Knight Foundation Poll Results: Americans Believe Media Play Critical Role in Democracy By Sue Brinkerhoff Bland, second vice president – communications In late January 2018, The Washington Post, the Knight Foundation and the University of Virginia hosted an event at the Post called Americans and the Media: Sorting Fact...
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Updated Feb. 7, 2018: The Contest is now closed for entries – Good luck to all the contestants in the 2018 contest! We will post winners here when they are announced. _______________________________________________________ From October 2017 The NFPW Communications Contest is Live for your Entries! Go online and find out about this year’s Communications...
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Julie Campbell was officially elected VPC’s 2017 President at the Oct. 5 business meeting, Cynthia Price passed her the president’s gavel. Campbell has been a member of VPC for almost 20 years. Julie is the Associate Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Washington and Lee University. In a recent VPC newsletter, Julie noted the following: Last...
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Virginia Professional Communicators, with members from all corners of Virginia, won six first place awards in Birmingham, Alabama at the National Federation of Press Women annual competition. First place winners included a small business consultant, a university magazine editor, newspaper journalist, legal magazine publisher, national trade association communicator...
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The National Federation of Press Women, holding its 2017 Communications Conference in Birmingham, Ala., issues the following statement: The National Federation of Press Women has watched with dismay as President Donald Trump has consistently demeaned and demonstrated contempt for the role of the press. He has made his anti-media position very clear, routinely...
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