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Front page news:
Our investigation of The Winchester Gazette has been published in full in today’s print edition of @thewinchesterstar, the city’s daily newspaper
Grab a copy and support local journalism!
Thank you to the Star for picking it up and giving it the premium print treatment
09 Oct 2026
Last week I completed the 78th Missouri Photo Workshop, the oldest running documentary photojournalism workshop in the world
Every year, 40 photographers from around the world are selected to find and tell visual stories in a different small town in Missouri
This year, the workshop came to Maryville, a town of 10,000 people about 95 miles north of Kansas City
For my story, “Duty Calls,” I followed Nodaway County Sheriff Austin Hann. He’s 36 and only two years into the job, and he said the hardest part is balancing it with his family, as he and his wife raise three little girls
For three days, the sheriff allowed me unconditional access to his life at work and at home, and I joined when he picked up the urn for his former police K-9, Bolt, who died on September 11
Thank you to the generous people of Maryville, and to the @mophotoworkshop coaches and faculty who pushed all of us in this unforgettable learning experience
And all praise to my partner @wawawomp, who won the workshop’s top photography award for her story “Keeping Up With Lillie,” which profiled a 23-year-old woman working three jobs
28 Sep 2026
Rocking into 35 — thanks to everyone who showed up for one of my best birthdays ever
To @stanleyjohnmitchell and @andrewbwhite for joining me on stage for my new songs
To @ab.holden and @counterserviceband for great opening sets
To @pianosnyc for making it happen again
And to @wawawomp for the photos and so much more (+ @fposillico for the cute ones of us at the end)
04 Oct 2026
Victory and defeat, side by side, on an Election Night full of surprises
Shannon Taylor, a Democrat, celebrated flipping Virginia’s 1st Congressional District in a party held right next door to the party for Rob Wittman, the 10-term Republican congressman she defeated
Wittman left his party without a concession speech, as results showed Taylor narrowly winning one of this year’s most competitive U.S House races
In her victory speech, Taylor told her supporters: “We are just getting started”
11/03/2026
Photos and videos available to license on @shutterstocknow
03 Nov 2026
Thanks to @myvpm and @michaelleepope for having me on today’s episode of the Virginia Press Room podcast, discussing my investigation into The Winchester Gazette for @thevcij, my frustrations with Virginia’s FOIA fees, and great local reporting by @joedodson16 and Karen Graham
Listen now on NPR and everywhere you got your podcasts
02 Nov 2026
Behind the scenes photos while I was horsing around shooting my story for last week’s @mtnworkshops — taken by @brettphelps101
Plus, my favorite photos from the assignment that didn’t make the final story edit
See everyone’s great work here:
https://archive.mountainworkshops.org/history/2026/35911
27 Oct 2026
My audio version of the Winchester Gazette investigation for @whro / @thevcij — featuring the voices of several people we interviewed for a story that has become a divisive community issue for weeks
Thanks to @ctyree for putting this together
Read our original investigation and last week’s followup here:
https://vcij.org/stories/in-winchester-the-truth-about-a-local-news-website-is-the-citys-best-kept-secret
https://vcij.org/stories/calls-for-local-virginia-gop-leader-to-step-down-in-light-of-website-revelations
26 Oct 2026
I returned last week to @mtnworkshops — which was a life-changing experience when I joined in the video course last year, just a few weeks after starting my freelance career
This year, I participated in the photography program, and the workshop went to Winchester (a town, funny enough, named after Winchester, Virginia — but that’s another story)
My story, “The Workhorse,” profiles Amy Graybill Green, who is pushing herself harder than ever after retiring from her teaching career last summer
Green now has more time for long-distance endurance horseback riding, a lifelong passion she calls “tough and crazy”
She’s training for back-to-back 50-mile rides in November, and wants to complete a 100-mile, 24-hour ride before she turns 60
For four days, Green let me tag along for the wild ride that is her life — I met her family and pets, joined her at the gym and sat in on her day of substitute teaching
The last day was the main event — a eight-mile practice ride with her horse Breeze
Thank you to Amy for her generous time and spirit, to the town of Winchester for its hospitality, and to all the coaches and staff who make this magical workshop happen every October
Thanks also to @_gracehollars for editing these photos and advising me, wisely, to not get on a horse while reporting the story — and to Libby Falk Jones for editing the written story
See my story, and all others from this year’s workshop, here: https://archive.mountainworkshops.org/history/2026/35911
25 Oct 2026
Following a VCIJ at WHRO investigation, the Winchester City Council president is calling for the resignation of the man who chairs both the Republican committee and city planning commission.
Other elected officials have also called for Carroll “Beau” Correll, a personal injury attorney connected to The Winchester Gazette, a controversial local news website, to step down from his appointed city post.
The Gazette launched in August 2023 with upbeat promises and an opaque public profile. But city leaders say the website has been divisive to the community.
(Story by Jaysun Silver, photo by Laura Thompson)
Read more by visiting whro.org/news (or link in bio).
#WHROPublicMedia
#WHROnews
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#publicradio
21 Oct 2026
New today at @thevcij / @whro —
The Republican president of the Winchester City Council has called on the chairman of the city’s GOP committee to resign, following a report by the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO that revealed the chairman’s ties to an opaque local news website, The Winchester Gazette.
In an interview with VCIJ, Council President Corey Sullivan said that Carroll “Beau” Correll should step down from his roles as chairman of both the Winchester Republican Committee and the city planning commission.
“I think that he needs to take some time off, think about where he goes from here,” Sullivan said. “I’ll tell you, Beau’s a very talented guy. He’s multi-talented, he can do a lot of things. But I think he’s made some big mistakes in this process, and he’s got to win back people’s trust.”
Full story is here: https://vcij.org/stories/calls-for-local-virginia-gop-leader-to-step-down-in-light-of-website-revelations
20 Oct 2026
Good times at the first two days of the Windup Watch Fair, the largest watch fair in the world
Oct. 16 and 17, 1026
These and more available for license on @shutterstocknow
19 Oct 2026
As the hometown newspaper cut staff and TV stations left the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, a website appeared touting a new, trusted source of local news.
The Winchester Gazette launched in August 2023 with upbeat promises and an opaque public profile: It said nothing about its owners and declared a no-byline policy, claiming to protect its reporters from undue influence.
For three years, The Gazette has published thousands of stories about crime, government meetings and community events. It boasted of being the first website in the country to call the 2024 presidential election for Donald Trump.
But Winchester leaders from both political parties started to question the site’s transparency and fairness. Who owns the Gazette – as well as the what, when, where and why of it all – became one of the city’s central mysteries.
Journalists Jaysun Silver and Laura Thompson couldn’t resist. They spent days in Winchester, talking with city leaders and residents, and months conducting dozens of interviews and combing through pages of public records.
The story of the Winchester Gazette stirs together city politics, a car-crash-chasing reporter, AI-generated stories, and a trail of corporate documents that lead to one Winchester attorney’s elderly relative in Florida.
It’s a small-city story filled with questions and intrigue – and it could happen in almost any news-starved community in the country.
Check out our full coverage by visiting whro.org/news (or link in bio).
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#community
#localnews
#publicradio
16 Oct 2026
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