Lee Wolverton News Today

Ricky L. Wolverton, 73, of Parsons passed away at 5:01 p.m. Friday, June 9, 2023, at Labette Health Emergency Department.

CHARLESTON — Longtime Charleston journalist Jeff Rider has been named executive editor of HD Media, publisher of the Charleston Gazette-Mail and The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington.

CHARLESTON — Work by HD Media employees was recognized Saturday in Charleston during the West Virginia Press Association’s annual awards banquet, celebrating the winners of the group’s 2022 newspaper contest.

A country careening off the rails need no longer be concerned about third rails, which explains their disintegration, a kind of societal Big Bang, abortion being the latest charged motif

A gun’s beauty is in the eye of the holder, a truth made acutely evident to Kanawha County Family Court Judge Jim Douglas during a cruise Monday night on the

Recently, The Herald-Dispatch (and also, I believe, the Charleston Gazette-Mail) carried a passionate but misguided message to “graduates, students et al” by Lee Wolverton, executive editor of both newspapers. The

Five editors and reporters from The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University’s independent student newspaper, will intern at some of the top regional news outlets this summer, gaining valuable experience and

A massive antitrust lawsuit against Google and Facebook is giving hope to newspapers by seeking to break up a monopoly, level the playing field for digital advertising, and revive a key part of our democracy.

Everyone knows West Virginia’s woes, ranging from self-inflicted maladies, physical and pharmaceutical, to brandished posteriors, canine and gubernatorial. The state inspires satire drawn from satyric ex-President Bill Clinton’s inaugural line:

HD Media has promoted three staffers, including one to a department-level position, the company announced Monday.