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 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. -
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe. What that could mean for future laws preventing women from having abortions based on genetic abnormalities.
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For the better part of the last century, Franklin County had a notorious reputation as the moonshine capital of the world. Now distillers are turning to live music and tasting rooms to sell white lightning legally.
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Pandemic relief measures coupled with federal grant programs stemmed the tide of evictions for a time. But now that most of those programs have ended, the city’s eviction rate is once again becoming a concern.
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Teaching has long been a challenging but noble profession attracting bright minds to educate youth. But in a post-pandemic world, many teachers are struggling to stay in a profession that requires them to do more with dwindling resources.
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Multimedia Journalist Billy Shields interviews UVA Education and Public Policy Assistant Professor Beth Schueler about learning loss in Virginia, who was most impacted, and the solutions showing most promise.
