by Lindsay Sonnett | May 11, 2022 | Uncategorized |
MAY 2, 2022 — Foothills Forum, in partnership with the Rappahannock News, has won a total of 21 awards from the Virginia Press Association (VPA) for original reporting about our community in 2021. The recognition from VPA — including eleven first-place...
by Lindsay Sonnett | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized |
What you wouldn’t know without Foothills Forum As the demise of local news has grown to a national crisis, depressing numbers have helped sound the alarm. You’re familiar with many of them: More than 2,100 community newspapers, many in rural areas like ours, have...
by Lindsay Sonnett | May 9, 2022 | Uncategorized |
Dear Friends, Welcome to the inaugural edition of the new Foothills Forum newsletter for supporters and friends. Foothills Forum In the emerging world of nonprofit journalism, Foothills is widely admired, producing award-winning stories. Foothills’ publishing partner...
by Lindsay Sonnett | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Today is Giving Tuesday: Please give to Foothills during NewsMatch “In Rappahannock, we are so fortunate to have Foothills Forum,” says Patti McGill Peterson of Sperryville. “When newspapers are struggling for survival — and more and more...
by Lindsay Sonnett | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized |
On November 19, Foothills Forum, a journalism partner of the Rappahannock News, met and selected its new board chair Andy Alexander, long-time Rapp resident and former ombudsman of The Washington Post. Alexander succeeds Larry “Bud’ Meyer, Foothills...
