VCOG Bulletin Board

This summer, VCOG welcomed five new members to its board. Olga Hernandez, Frosty Landon and Jeff South will fill at-large seats, while Ed Reams and Melody Scalley will take up two of the five seats reserved for broadcasters. Hernandez is president of the Virginia League of Women Voters. Landon, former editor of The Roanoke Times, is VCOG’s founding director. South is an associate professor in VCU’s School of Mass Communications. Reams is vice president of news for WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, while Scalley is a conservative political talk show host for “Politics on the Edge” airing on 1330 AM, 103.3 WESR FM and RFCradio.com out of Eastville.

VCOG board member Pam Luecke has been named head of the Washington and Lee Department of Journalism and Mass Communications. She succeeds Brian Richardson, who stepped down earlier this summer, and will continue to teach as a member of the school’s faculty. Pam, who has been the Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism at W&L, heads the VCOG Marketing and Advertising Committee and is a member of the Nominating Committee.

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