Are you are a journalist, PR person, freelance writer, author, blogger or other communicator looking for a compatible professional organization in Virginia – a place where you can learn how to market yourself and your work? A place where you can hone your skills through excellent professional development meetings? A place where you can make friends and find support?...
Read MorePresident Bonnie Atwood 804-358-3745 bonatwood@verizon.net Freelance Writer, Tall Poppies Freelance Writing LLC First Vice-president – Membership Gail Kent 757-930-0032 (office) 757-876-5420 gail.kent@thebuzzfactoree.com The BuzzFactoree, Newport News Second Vice-president – GalleyPruf VACANT Third...
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The Spring Conference was held in Farmville, VA, at Moton Museum, a national historic landmark, ground zero for equality in American education. Sixty years ago this year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education (1954), a case that desegregated schools and had a 16-year-old Farmville, Virginia girl at its roots. Barbara Rose Johns was that girl....
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Our members hail from a variety of communications careers. Their stories are as unique as they are, but they all have one thing in common: they love Virginia Professional Communicators! Margaret Mock Bonnie Atwood Alberta Lindsey
Read MoreVirginia Professional Communicators’ Newsmaker 2014, author Marietta McCarty, has produced three top-selling books in the past seven years: Little Big Minds: Sharing Philosophy with Kids (2006), How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most (2009) and The Philosopher’s Table: How to Start Your Philosophy Dinner Club – Monthly Conversation, Music and...
Read MoreVPC was well represented at the 2014 NFPW Conference in Greenville, SC in September.
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Richmond singer/songwriter extraordinaire Susan Greenbaum By Martha Steger As professional communicators, we’re storytellers. That’s true of singers/songwriters, too. Virginia Press Women’s Awards Committee is pleased to announce singer/songwriter Susan Greenbaum as the 2013 Newsmaker to be honored at our fall conference on Sept. 21 at The Westwood Club in...
Read MoreWomen’s Strike Force Founders Katherine Waddell and Robin Abbott Newsmakers of the Year Seldom do you see Republicans, Democrats, and independents joining forces in Virginia, but that’s what happened earlier this year after the introduction of “personhood” and mandatory ultrasound legislation in the Virginia General Assembly. Leading that effort were former...
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