Billy Shields
Multimedia JournalistBilly Shields has decades of journalism experience in television, radio and print. Before joining VPM he worked as an MMJ for TV news outlets in Montreal, Canada and for newspapers in Mexico, Miami and the Caribbean. He has won awards for a retrospective on the Oka Crisis and investigations into questionable sewage contracts in the Virgin Islands and the gray market of lawsuit loans in Miami.
Shields earned a bachelor's from Kenyon College and a master's in Latin American Studies and Journalism from the University of Florida. He's a member of the National Press Photographers Association, a former trainer with Journalists for Human Rights and a Canadian citizen.
He was born and raised in Richmond and began his career as a cub reporter for the Tidewater Review in West Point, Virginia.
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WatchHigh school seniors from Hanover County are spearheading efforts to get around the book ban imposed by the county’s school board. They’ve created what one of them calls “underground libraries.”
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WatchArmy veteran Jim Rudisill argues that Veterans Affairs is improperly denying him full benefits under the G.I. Bill. Through his lawyers, he argued to the U.S. Supreme Court he’s entitled to more robust benefits passed by Congress after 9-11.
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WatchControversial speakers are meeting with increasingly fierce protests on campus. Two Virginia schools are banding together to search for efforts to ensure free speech on campus.
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WatchCandidates for Virginia Senate District 16 debate the issues in 2023.
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WatchVirginia House District 58: candidates Rodney Willett, democrat and Riley Shaia, republican, debate.
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WatchMedia studies professor and Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains what he sees as the biggest threat to American democracy today.
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For more than 85 years, the Old Fiddlers' Convention has fostered acoustic music.
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WatchA Henrico woman has made it her mission to end the stereotype that Black women don’t know how to swim. She has taught more than 100 people to swim, most of whom are women of color.
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WatchA Richmond-based pharmaceutical company is focused on making affordable drugs in central Virginia. The founder hopes the area will become the “epicenter” for advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing.
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WatchThe Health Wagon refers to a program of seven mobile clinics that treat more than 10,000 patients in a single year. The organization holds an annual volunteer drive at a fairground in Wise County to provide access to health care to thousands in the region, and recently restarted that program for the first time since the pandemic.
