At its March 2010 meeting in Roanoke, the VCOG Board of Directors elected two new at-large members to the board:
Forrest M. “Frosty” Landon, VCOG’s founding executive director and former editor of The Roanoke Times; and
Jeff South, associate professor in VCU’s School of Mass Communications.
Both were elected to three-year, renewable terms. Their seats were added to the board by a November 2008 bylaws amendment.
Two VCOG board members stepped down over the winter as they accepted new jobs in different areas.
Peter Maroney, a Virginia Association of Broadcasters appointee and VCOG treasurer, has left Richmond’s WTVR to take over two television stations in the Denver, Colo., market; and
Jane Elizabeth, a Virginia Press Association appointee, has left The Virginian-Pilot to take a job at The Washington Post.
The past service of both these members is greatly appreciated, and the board extends its best wishes to them.
John B. Edwards, publisher of The Smithfield Times, received individual honors during the Virginia Press Association’s News Conference & Annual Meeting March 20 in Roanoke. Edwards was given VPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on behalf of the association and the newspaper industry. He is known as a champion of government transparency and community journalism, and has been a VCOG director since the organization’s founding in 1996.
VCOG will host the National FOI Coalition’s 2010 Annual Summit, May 7-8, at the Key Bridge Hyatt in Rosslyn. Board members Ginger Stanley and Lucy Dalglish are among the speakers.