Billy Shields
Multimedia Journalist, Chesterfield CountyBilly 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.
Email Billy: [email protected]
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The neighborhood of Culmore is considered an island of disadvantage – an impoverished area largely in the midst of one known for being wealthy. Million dollar homes sit mere blocks away from apartment complexes that house several families in a single unit. -
High 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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Army 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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Controversial 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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Candidates for Virginia Senate District 16 debate the issues in 2023.
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Virginia House District 58: candidates Rodney Willett, democrat and Riley Shaia, republican, debate.
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Media 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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A 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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A 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.
